This use of “drops” leads to confusion when places like CNN inevitably use it in a chyron like “Mueller drops indictment of Russians”
Yes language evolves, but evolution often hits dead ends that serve no purpose or are harmful. Having a word evolve to mean its exact opposite is probably one of those times, especially when context doesn’t help immediately (when “literally” changed to mean “figuratively” it was pretty easy to tell what was really meant)
If I were in charge of any media, I’d mitigate the confusion by avoiding this term in headlines…but then, maybe it adds to clicks from confused people wondering about some kind of controversy (what? they dropped the pilot episode?! But I was waiting for that show!)
