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Originally Posted by Crompsin
...but you're stuffed with sunshine and puppies, Baraka!
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That's poppycock, Crompsie. I'm a goth kid.
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
I'm just as much a speaker of the language as anyone else is. Therefore, I do get a say in how it changes. Most of the time I don't care [...] but when I'm forced to go back and decipher my own language to figure out what someone is trying to say, then I'm more prone to speak up and be mildly annoyed. I recognize language is living, but as a part of that I see no reason why it's less valid for me to dislike a particular usage than it is for someone else to use a word improperly.
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It isn't less valid for you to dislike any usage. But at the same time, it's kinda pointless to rail against it; it will change nonetheless. Be grateful--by as late as the Middle Ages, English dialect was so varied that peasants couldn't understand one another if they weren't living in the same
district. Now with the information age, you are finding both shifting usage and new words. I'm pretty sure
webinar isn't a word, but it's a bit more useful than saying
Web-based seminar or
online seminar. I don't like it one bit, but there isn't much I can do. The only thing any of us can do is try to keep up with what people are trying to say.
For God's sake, the only people I can stop from using the ghastly word
utilize are my authors.