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[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Incorrect. People have been using it the way you are complaining about for hundreds of years. It’s a new phenomenon that people complain about it being used the way you disapprove of. I’d attribute the recent complaints to lack of literary exposure and anti intellectualism in recent years.