Who needs a unifying theme anyway?
I also do Stuff My Girlfriend Says which is a lot funnier than this. Mostly because my girlfriend is funnier than me.
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@indefensible
Please don’t use the feeble defence of sloppy usage - “Oh it’s a living language”.
Yes, it is a living language. So kindly refrain from killing it.
Words are the way we define our interactions with one another and with the past. If we allow words that have specific meanings to acquire other meanings then we introduce confusion and decrease the utility of the language.
For example, if you were to read an account of the recapture of Villers-Bretonneaux which said that advancing forces were decimated, then how would you know what was actually meant? How many died? 10%? 70%?
Decimated and devastated sound similar. They don’t mean the same thing.
