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Originally Posted by Full Mountain
True, but many words have changed their meanings over the years maybe this is one of those that will change over the next while.
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It's less a change in meaning and more of a field-specific usage. Other than Arcade Fire songs, I can't really think of many times outside of SSP that I hear the word "sprawl" to mean anything but the generic sense. People talk about how Banff sprawls across the mountains - I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean SFH is going up with cul-de-sacs everywhere.
This isn't like "organic" where only chemists used the term before, so a re-definition in the common vernacular was easy enough. Sprawl is a word that everyone already knows, and uses.
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