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Those Words Do Not Mean What You Think They Mean

From a NYT article on the decline of certain word usage in literature: Iā€™d like to tell a story about the last half-century, based on studies done with this search engine. The first element in this story is rising individualism. A study by Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell and Brittany Gentile found that between Those Words Do Not Mean What You Think They Mean