Timeline for Idiom or better yet a word for loss of fidelity by copying
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| Dec 14, 2021 at 1:22 | comment | added | tgdavies | The question mentions the game of telephone, which involves words getting changed. | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 22:09 | comment | added | T.E.D. | That's talking about actual words getting changed, added, or removed. I suppose one could argue its a similar concept, in that the original meaning is getting "fuzzier", but I can't help but think there's a better cognitive match out there. | |
| Dec 13, 2021 at 7:01 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | @somebody That's often true for people who are familiar with the term from its use with digital technology. Outside of digital technology, the definition of "corruption" is usually more similar to "alteration". | |
| Dec 12, 2021 at 6:44 | comment | added | somebody | note however that corruption usually implies that the data becomes essentially completely unusable. for images i feel like it normally implies some (not necessarily all) of the image being completely unrecognizable | |
| Dec 12, 2021 at 3:02 | history | answered | tgdavies | CC BY-SA 4.0 |