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Eminently sensible words, Savage Clone.
But I would like to add that language changes naturally, through use and re-use - for example, it's highly likely that everyone on this board now uses slang terms that didn't exist in that sense even five or ten years ago. Are new words/uses for words always bad? Not neccessarily, in my opinion, and we should not be too quick to denounce modern changes whilst we use and even celebrate developments of the past. To use an extreme example, Shakespeare gave us something like 1800 new words! Many of them are still very common everyday words that we all use: critical, gloomy, accomodation, road and lonely are five that spring to mind. He also shoved words together to make new phrases eg pitched battle, mind's eye, foregone conclusion, heart of gold.
edit: I'm 100%! Splendid!
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