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Originally Posted By: Hydra
Do you lot honestly accept the unintentional abuse and misuse of words without batting an eyelid?
I've lost count of how many times I've posted the link to this Language Log post on that subject.
On the other hand, almost everything that's said in English today is ungrammatical if you go back far enough in the history of the language. Humpty Dumpty is all of us and a word means what we all choose it to mean.
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