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Originally Posted by hobnail
Speaking of single word peeves, another one of mine is when people use words incorrectly and then it becomes so widespread that the dictionaries start defining the new and formerly incorrect usage as correct.
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I agree! "nice" should still mean "stupid, foolish, ignorant" the way it originally did eight centuries ago. Semantic shift is EVIL, and people who insist that language, every language, constantly evolves and changes are just being NICE. And don't get me started on the horrible lazy way the perfectly fine "god be with you" got slurred by slovenly, lazy speakers into the AWFUL modernism "goodbye"