SOME PEOPLE CAN'T TAKE A HACK.

Who are the people that get to make up new words? I accept that some of them are useful, though I can't think of one right now. But some are very annoying. Like hack meaning hint. Not only is hints a perfectly serviceable word: household hints, shopping hints, give me a hint. But hack meaning hint is totally unnecessary. In addition the word hack is already working overtime. A taxi is a hack, a mediocre writer is a hack, criminals hack into computers. you can hack a tree down, you can have a hacking cough,etc. So what idiot decided that the four-letter word hint needed to be replaced by the four-letter word hack? My guess is it was some hack.