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You know what? This may shock some of you but I really didn't mean to jump on every single spelling error (which may simply be typos) or mild abuse of grammar. I'm talking about people using words they don't even understand! I've already brought up some examples, like "vertigo", "fantastic", and (what started this thread in the first place) "literal". Another good example is the term "by definition". Such as "my hand was, by definition, killing me!" What definition of "kill" are they using? I don't know...
To a lesser extent, misusing words like "to" and "too", "there" and "their", "weather" and "whether", and many others, also demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of those words. Should we redefine the language so that we only use one spelling for words that sound alike? Perhaps, since (it seems that) that will help many people to write correctly but, as someone who reads and writes fluent English, that kind of writing would just seem... wrong!
Anyway, I guess my real (and less alarming) point is this: why would you use words you don't understand?
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