• fosho@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    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
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      7 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!