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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4870914, member: 110504&quot;]Well, okay, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], if you want to get really tough, it was Johnson who first ventured very far beyond Swift&#039;s ruthless prescriptivism (like the Latinacity of the word, incidentally), in the Preface to the <u>Dictionary</u>.&nbsp; </p><p>...What I like less than the expansion and modification of the language (where innovation is concerned, we might compare Hip-Hop lyrics to Shakespeare), is its erosion.&nbsp; For instance, in the case you just demonstrated.&nbsp; That&#039;s a frankly shocking statistic, if you consider the number of people who&#039;ve lost the (...?) original connotation entirely.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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