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Originally Posted by Jaydee
Or, you know, languages evolve like they are supposed to. Or maybe you would that prefer we still grunt like monkeys to communicate?
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Capitulating to coloquial expressions and slang is not evolving language. That's devolution. Thank god we don't do that regularly otherwise we'd have to know what every cockney rhyming expression was instead of, you know, the words being used meaning what they actually mean.
There are so many word in English already that changing a word's meaning to the antonym of the other definition of the word is downright stupid. There are plenty of words to do that job already.