• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but its use to mean its opposite didn’t become widespread until the past decade or so.

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      1 year 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.