Don't just lay down. Stand and fight for the correct spelling.
I would say that's really rather different, since it's just the case of an error/ misunderstanding on the part of many people, just as if a lot of people thought that "light borlb" was a correct term - so, as bernard has said, the appropriate course there is to try to educate in relation to the very-long-standing correct word.How many people have to start calling that troublesome male organ the prostrate before we change the medical dictionaries, anatomy training etc?
That didn't stop them redefining literally so it no longer means literally and the 'mistakers' cannot even look it up to see they are wrong.I would say that's really rather different, since it's just the case of an error/ misunderstanding on the part of many people,How many people have to start calling that troublesome male organ the prostrate before we change the medical dictionaries, anatomy training etc?
As I said:That didn't stop them redefining literally so it no longer means literally and the 'mistakers' cannot even look it up to see they are wrong.
If they don't do that, they gradually become ineffective as a reference source in relation to the language "as it is spoken"Having said that, if the misuse of a word becomes sufficiently widespread, dictionaries eventually have little choice but to at least acknowledge, if not 'bless', the incorrect/'colloquial' use of the word.
Not at weekends, and not always even during the week!Hi can someone please confirm that this is DIYnot electrical forum, thanks.
I'm not clear as to where you would like to draw a line. If today's dictionaries did not take on board the evolutions of meaning (and sometimes spelling) that have occurred (usually driven by 'common usage') over the centuries, they would surely be quite useless to anyone who wanted to speak, write, read or understand the English being used in 2014?Well, I think that's awful.
You mean like the way in which the dictionaries seem to have been far too quick in "giving in", even though the new meaning was in no way 'common usage', to the (IMO totally unnecessary) change in the meaning of the word "lamp" which was presumably introduced by "professionals with knowledge and understanding"?The problem is the speed at which they give up, at which the professionals with knowledge and understanding simply abandon what they know to be correct, and give in to the ignorami. rather than taking every opportunity to tell the ignorami they are wrong, and to encourage a culture where everybody tells the ignorami they are wrong at every possible opportunity, and to refuse to accept their language.
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I suppose it is definition by democracy and there is no solution but it is not helped these days by the attitude that we should not point out people's shortcomings.I'm not clear as to where you would like to draw a lineWell, I think that's awful.
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