Ham. Words, words, words.

In general, peoples blatant misuse of words, irks me. Tjis[sic] counts doubly so, when people abuse it to the extent, that it becomes the new standard.

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C.S. Lewis wrote a whole book on this, "Studies in Words" (1960), and you can probably find Roman and older sources complaining about the kids these days. Future generations (assuming they exist) will doubtless continue this tradition, alongside the tradition of drifting the meanings of words in the most abhorent and unnatural of ways.

Meanwhile, what exactly is a wine-dark sea?