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Originally Posted by pickled_heretic
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Here we go. Here's another example of nonstandard usage becoming standard. The article you referred to has itself declared that this has become a standard usage in American English. You can fight the change, but you're just going to look like an assclown and ultimately your efforts are futile.
The English language changes. All languages change. Words are added, modified, and removed on a daily basis. If you spoke with someone who spoke Middle English, you would barely understand them, and farther removed still would your understanding be if you spoke to someone who spoke Old English (In fact, Old English would probably sound like a completely foreign language to you).
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I still reserve the right to choke someone maliciously for using ginormous in my presence, I don't give a damn if it's been added to the dictionary or not.