When grading papers from students, it's reasonable to correct their usage. I'm probably reacting to all of this because the impetus of this discussion was someo

When grading papers from students, it's reasonable to correct their usage. I'm probably reacting to all of this because the impetus of this discussion was someone rehashing a complaint that I suspect most of us have already heard about a word no longer only having a meaning that's so uncommon that it's not unreasonable for it to no longer have a single word for it stemming from its usage in an article by an author who likely won't ever read these comments. I'm also not super convinced that people won't be able to understand concepts like "disinterested justice" because there's plenty of other terminology for that like "impartial" that are arguably much more common; I'm honestly not sure I've ever heard the term "disinterested justice" before now. I can at least see the value of that viewpoint being expressed even if I don't agree with it though, so in retrospect I should have responded before directly to the comment about "decimate" rather than replying to your response.