| re: "Literally" |
| Posted by: Budinsky 07:32 pm EDT 07/16/18 |
| In reply to: re: "Literally" - BruceinIthaca 10:01 am EDT 07/16/18 |
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I have yet to understand how presumably intelligent people take the position that if a word is consistently used incorrectly by enough people that the word's meaning needs to be bent to accommodate that incorrect usage. I would think that they'd take the opposite tack, acting as a bulwark to defend the language.
I'm not familiar with the work of McWhorter and I'm not about to remedy that. Apparently, he's "a smart scholar." Just out of curiosity: could you provide me with an example of a stupid one? |
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