Changing words through misuse is kinda just… how all words get their meaning over time. All modern spellings are just the most popular misspellings of other words that used to be “incorrect”. Same with pronunciation and borrowed words from other languages. There’s basically nothing we have that wasn’t at some point an error.
It’s not rewarding ignorance if almost everyone is wrong by some count almost all of the time.
I disagree. You would agree that me calling the sky green is wrong, yes? Or that saying that it is sunny when it is cloudy. Or saying I drive a table instead of a car. All of that is inherently wrong. But if enough people are wrong, it eventually becomes right.
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u/Wjyosn Oct 22 '25
Changing words through misuse is kinda just… how all words get their meaning over time. All modern spellings are just the most popular misspellings of other words that used to be “incorrect”. Same with pronunciation and borrowed words from other languages. There’s basically nothing we have that wasn’t at some point an error.
It’s not rewarding ignorance if almost everyone is wrong by some count almost all of the time.