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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What makes this word such a problem is that it's people trying to shoehorn a definition into a word that doesn't fit and never will fit.
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You mean like ereader (any electronic device with a readable screen is an e reader) or book (I'm just reading the latest novel on my book....?). We like the word because it has some cultural weight, it sounds nice to us, and because actually we don't take Google as the world arbitrator on the meaning of language.
Your opinion of shoehorning is only that, an opinion, and it's not one that I and many others share.