Jackie, your reminder that we now use "graphic" to connote violence, sex, etc in movies and such, made me wonder why it
is we invent new meanings for old words, adapting the word to encompass something losely based in the original meaning.

Do we do this because there is no "single" word to convey the new meaning? So in our constant desire to shorten long phrases to a single word, we invent a new meaning? Or do we do out of boredom for the current words, and a desire to bring "freshness" into our language?

Not a deep query, just one I often think about.......