• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    20 hours ago

    Or maybe those other things shouldn’t have happened, but it’s too late for them. Now we have to save the words that are in danger now.

    If a boat is sinking, and I’m saying we have to save those people, would the proper response be “Well, where were you when the Titanic was going down? Why aren’t you all worried about them?”

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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      19 hours ago

      Words aren’t “endangered”. There are literally an infinite number of potential words, if we need to reinvent a meaning, we can quite easily(see: synonym). Further, the original meanings still exist. You can still use “awful” to mean “inspiring awe” and you’re correct, you just won’t be understood.