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Originally Posted by Tcoat
It is not being pedantic to try and argue that just because some (not sure where you get "vast majority") people use a word wrong it doesn't all of a sudden make it right.
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Just to nitpick, but that exactly how language evolution works. Maybe not "all of a sudden", but after enough time has passed and enough people use a word in a new way, that new way will become the "right way" and the old way will become the "wrong way".