I didn't mean to be pompous. My native tongue is German and I didn't know a better word than Zeitgeist for what I wanted to say. I feel that language in genera

I didn't mean to be pompous. My native tongue is German and I didn't know a better word than Zeitgeist for what I wanted to say. I feel that language in general is being used in a different way today than even just a few years ago. Admittedly, I don't have objective measures for this but I know I am not alone in this assessment. Even the Economist recently ran a feature about this lamentable phenomenon.