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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, American English is absolutely getting “dumber” every day.  Common usage puts the misused word in the dictionary and then we’re done.  We’re losing key distinctions by accepting misuse.  [/quote]

Or languages always evolve. Ask a linguist.[/quote]Yes, pp is absolutely correct! Language changes and maybe some of us are nostalgic for the old ways of saying something but that doesn't mean that the new ways are dumber.  They're just different.  I don't like change either but I rarely assume that means the change is dumb.[/quote]

As a scholar specializing in dead languages, I assure you English is not losing 'key distinctions'.  Language is used differently in different situations and contexts.  When precision is required, there is no shortage of words that can communicate, with accuracy, what the writer intends.

I will offer, over the millennia, there have been gazillions of dollars made and lost on 'language precision and imprecision'.  What we are experiencing is nothing new. [/quote]

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