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Yes I realized this, but this makes the word unnecessarily ambiguous and this new definition is the purely the result of enough people using the word incorrectl
by maroonshifter 7y ago
Yes I realized this, but this makes the word unnecessarily ambiguous and this new definition is the purely the result of enough people using the word incorrectly long enough.
We don't mean "destroy 10%" when we use the word decimate anymore, I get it. Natural language, migration of meaning, subjective denotation etc.
- JackFr 7y agoTell me about it. I spend tons of karma absorbing downvotes in a losing battle correcting 'enormity' and 'epicenter'
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- davidivadavid 7y agoSo the normative comment should really be: avoid using "peruse" because it's ambiguous.
- nawgszy 7y agoIn a vacuum, perhaps, but to call it "unnecessarily ambiguous" when literally placed beside the word "skimmers" seems... intentionally dense