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Originally Posted by aceventura3
The English language is a living language. She used it properly as have others outside of the historic origin of the term.
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She used it incorrectly, as a small few have also used it incorrectly in the past. The English language is a living language, but changing the meaning of a word overnight due to ignorance is not the mechanism of linguistic evolution.
Anyway, why should I trust the word of a giraffe*?
*not referring to the long-necked, African mammal, but rather a term I just made up which means people who use semantic arguments I disagree with