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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn’t new. You’re talking about using disappear as a transitive verb, which is usually reserved for describing people being killed/kidnapped like by a political regime. Not sure of the origin, though.[/quote]

But it is grammatically incorrect. So when did it become mainstream?[/quote]
It's very correct. So correct and so regular, in fact, that Merriam-Webster lists it as a definition for the word disappear. Were you born yesterday?[/quote]

DP here. I don’t object to disappear but this is hardly the gold standard. [b]MW adds all kinds of made up words that enter the vernacular. [/b]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginormous

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rizz

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bae

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noob

There are tons more but you get the idea. Finding something “in the dictionary” is not the definitive proof it once was.

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Yes, that's how language works. It evolves and changes over time and things that were once "wrong" and now "right."

I notice you're not writing your posts in old or even middle English, so clearly you yourself regularly use many, many words and phrases that were once "made up words that entered the vernacular."[/quote]

Bitte thine tong![/quote]

thy is fine.
Thine is used when the following word starts with a vowel sound. Like A and An.[/quote]

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