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		lawnchair_larry on Oct 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber receives more foreign-worker visas as it lays... The meaning hasn’t changed, many people just use it incorrectly because of this misconception.

CydeWeys on Oct 26, 2019 [–]

The meaning clearly has changed if it's widely being used in a different way. How do you think all those different definitions of words get into dictionaries?

You're being prescriptivist, whereas language usage is descriptivist.

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