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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by colechristensen on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:52PM (#31030577)
>Did pointedly ignoring common usage add anything here?

Yes, there are plenty of words going though the natural process of dilution. Providing some backpressure is, I think, useful to the language to preserve the richness of meaning. I'm responding directly to a discussion about the meaning of a word not interjecting into another conversation with a "well, actually..."

When you're writing a dictionary, words mean what people use them to mean. I'm not writing a dictionary.

Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by palmetieri2000 on Friday April 15, 2022 @05:35AM (#31038166)
Except that your 'well actually' still exists because you ignored the much more common usage when you made your point and didn't mention anything about your valiant effort to preserve etymological treasures until questioned?
Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by heromal on Friday April 15, 2022 @06:46PM (#31046869)
Damn, get the body bag