The point is if I don't agree with you and don't care about what you say but reply to you that I could care less, then it means I do care a little which is not what I mean which defeats the point and renders communication and meaning void.
I might as well say that "I love you and desire you and want to put a bullet in your head"
And there is no way for you to know if I am hitting on you or hating you to the point of killing you or just feeling neutral towards you because I don't use words or verbs or expressions the way they are supposed to. This is not evolution, this is written and spoken language degeneracy.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It doesn't matter whether or not you "allow" it, there's nothing anyone can do about it. There's no "degeneration" in language, changes taking place today are every bit as much cultural changes as every other change in language. The reason we aren't speaking Indo-European today is because of these kind of "errors". Language has rules, but they are discovered rather than imposed. Dante did not write in a degenerate form of Latin. Changes that fail to communicate information will be abandoned.
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