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But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.

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“Literally” officially meaning “figuratively” radicalized me.

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But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.

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Lear Welsh or French. They’re both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used

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I think that’s polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it’s far more subtle than that

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Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.

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That’s so fetch.

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