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It's the shittiest way that language changes: when the majority of people using a word are pretending that they know what it means in order to impress other people, rather than using a simpler word that they know. They seem to be confusing it with a Newspeak word, which is even more dark.

I'm upset that we're losing "disinterested" to people looking for a snooty way to say that they're not impressed.




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