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Dictionaries also contain the words "ain't", "widdershins", "gallimaufry", and "cunt". Just because words exist or just because they have one possible meaning d
by InclinedPlane 13y ago
Dictionaries also contain the words "ain't", "widdershins", "gallimaufry", and "cunt". Just because words exist or just because they have one possible meaning doesn't mean that suddenly you are forced to use them or ignore instances where language is used in a way you dislike. Go ahead and call people out on uses of the word "literally" in a figurative sense, there's nothing stopping you whether that usage is recorded in a dictionary or not.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoOn the other hand, calling out a popular usage and giving the reason that it's "wrong" (rather than something you dislike on purely arbitrary grounds), is almost always baseless intellectual snobbery.