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Originally Posted by Dylrob
That sounds like an oximoron. I mean the way we use many words today would have been considered "wrong" a few centuries ago; The precise understanding of a word can evolve overtime. So arguably the only difference between right and wrong is how widely the usage is accepted.
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There's also politics meddling in liguistics and trying to change the vocabulary and grammar from the top down for political reasons, declaring widely used words or grammar forms "undesirable" over night.