Word meanings shift slowly or fast based on social change

Evidence

Our words’ contain a sort of archaeological stratigraphy representing great historical shifts in society and the continuing evolution of meaning. and usage. Words do not stand still, and any attempt to fix them will fail. … Perhaps trust belongs to this latter category. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2399

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core method: lexicographic archaeology reading social history from word change.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s trust-as-infrastructure analysis — word etymology as the strata of trust’s social conditions. — connects to: Humans become antiquated because meaning-processing cannot keep pace with change — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 432; Word meanings are social facts no individual user can unilaterally change. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1471; The same Latin phrase flipped meaning across eras due to cultural change — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 243 (+1 more)