Originally Posted By: zmjezhd
[It] don't describe the specific kind of shift where a term has become pejorative to everybody using the term.

If a majority of folks is using the phrase with a new meaning, rather than the older one, that seems like a classic case of semantic change to me.


I think I worded my response badly. I didn't mean to suggest that it was not an example of semantic change or semantic shift, merely that caling it semantic change or shift does not differentiate it from more benign examples of semantic change.