Fun Friday Question: How do you interpret ``cast'' in ``typecast''?

When you cast some bits to a new type:

• Are they being ``cast'' in a new role, like in theater?
• Are they being ``cast'' into a new shape, like molten metal in a mould?
• Are they being ``cast'' like a spell into a new form?
• Are they being ``cast'' like being thrown into a new type space?
• Something else?

It would be interesting to see how different people think about this many-faced word, and how it might affect how they think about type casts in general!

>>1
fuck you ASSHOLE

>>1

1. Half-cast
2. Half-cast
3. Half-cast
4. Half-cast
5. Half-cast


>>2
This /thread

>Are they being ``cast'' in a new role, like in theater?
That's always been my interpretation I think.

cast into a new shape like molten metal

Cast into a sodden abyss like a fishing line