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lawnchair_larry
on Oct 26, 2019
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Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays...
The meaning hasn’t changed, many people just use it incorrectly because of this misconception.
CydeWeys
on Oct 26, 2019
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The meaning clearly has changed if it's widely being used in a different way. How do you think all those different definitions of words get into dictionaries?
You're being prescriptivist, whereas language usage is descriptivist.
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