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Originally Posted by DylanFRS
Ah, thank you! I really bothers me that people have incorrectly used dampening so much that it has redefined the word... It's like funner, it's not a word and we shouldn't have added it to the dictionary just because people are too lazy to use proper grammar.
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I'd say linguistic evolution is a very important process for any language. Sure there are major pitfalls that should be avoided from time to time, but the addition and implementation of words makes a language what it is. Besides, we could be worse off:
"Whan that aprill with his shoures soot
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;..."
- Excerpt from The Canterbury Tales; Prologue (Middle English)