Aramis: Well put! When I was a pre- I would have agreed with you in every possible way. It would appear that each and every vulgar usage eventually finds itself into Merriam Collegiate until eventually any word can come to have any meaning you wish it to
eg, by 2098 "Drive the drive to drive my drive and blue drive" will mean, "Please label the DVD on which you wish to record my singing, then transcribe this music to the blue semiconductor chip hanging by my keychain"
However I have learned in the meantime that resistance is futile, that one might as well join the de-‘s, simply lie on his stomach and spread his cheeks...
However, for what it’s worth (which evidently isn’t very much), an otherwise valuable parting thought: When faced with a new concept in search of a label, instead of applying a divergent new meaning to an old word, I highly recommend instead the coining of a brand-new one
OP
