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[–] fosho@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I think it's fair to be frustrated when language is forcibly changed by lazy misuse. We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn't be seen as a worthless effort.

Obviously at some point numbers win over and then we have folks like you who have gotten comfortable using terms incorrectly and arguing that the definition has changed. And it has. But that doesn't make it a good thing.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn't be seen as a worthless effort.

But we are inventing new extremely awesome and unimaginably, um, awesome words, like 67, too!

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago

I have news for you about the history of every word.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 53 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

That "lazy misuse" is how you got your idea of what the word means in the first place. That's how language evolves, and why we say "goodbye" instead of "God be with you"