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zmgsabsttoday at 2:47 PM1 replyview on HN

This is how language evolves.

For supermajority: the construction means “beyond majority” or “above majority”, it is implemented as a higher percentage in most systems, and there is a utility in being able to refer to high ratio majority.

So people have repurposed a technical word to a general word, of roughly the same meaning.


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albatross79today at 4:11 PM

No, some usage is just wrong, even if many people are doing it.

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