Many years ago, I interviewed a professor of Linguistics from a major university. At the time, I was annoyed that the word “unique,” meaning one-of-a-kind, was routinely showing up in print as a synonym for rare. “What’s happening to our language?” I asked the scholar. “Language is fluid,” he explained. “It’s a living thing. It evolves with time.” “So, you’re saying the meanings of words change as people use them incorrectly? Language sinks to the lowest common denominator?” He replied, […]
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