I was perusing my recommended links on Chrome and came across an article about a rendering for a restomod fox body Mustang (I've been looking them up as it's currently my latest must have for a project car and Goole being the stalkers they are, I'm now seeing stuff related to it). What does that have to with English you might be wondering? Well, it's the use of the word "modern" to mean old. The article uses the word 7 times in the sense that the word is supposed to be used given its definition, but then it goes on to say [quote]The gold exterior paint color and dark-tinted windows contrast sharply, along with yellow brake calipers, a color scheme that looks both [u]modern and contemporary.[/u][/quote]Both modern and contemporary? Those words are literally synonyms and pretty much mean the same exact thing. But apparently, with people's loose and often erroneous usage of this language as a whole, modern - in design terms - means old whereas contemporary still means present times. What? While not quite on par with people trying to make use of literally to mean figuratively an acceptable thing or people mixing up intrusive and impulsive, this is still absolutely stupid and I'm now wondering how often I've come across it or similar things. I know no one could give a -blam!- about this, even my fellow linguistics nerds, but whatever.