# How dangerous is worn ‘non-stick’ cookware? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-worn-non-stick-cookware/726359 "2015-07-27T22:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-worn-non-stick-cookware/726359/14 "2015-07-30T02:33:53Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Um … is the OP posting from a phone with an overactive autocorrect, or using translation software? No, but he understands that language is a fluid thing – ever changing, adapting itself to the speakers who speak it. So he takes best advantage of that fact himself. > [@NO! – it is not AWESOME](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-it-is-not-awesome/289538/1): > > I know that language is a fluid thing – ever changing, adapting itself to the speakers who speak it; but there are certain words which should never be fucked with. > > Over the years, numerous words have been diluted to meaninglessness by the repetitious misuse rampant in the vernacular. Like stones knocked and tossed and made jagged, or worn smooth by the moving waters that move them, words have come to have meanings that suit the speakers. They evolve or devolve from the original definitions. See, _e.g.,_ [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295848), [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=323672) and [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=384853). But he’s definitely getting better at it! 😃 ETA: He also did a [Ask the man who knows nothing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654365) thread. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-dangerous-is-worn-non-stick-cookware/726359)._