I'd like to see those in charge of publishing Dictionaries & Thesauruses (Oxford/Cambridge etc) deploy quality control and use what power they have to reject certain entries.
As it is, they are partly responsible for the dumbing-down of language, by allowing crass slang words and words that have different meanings.
By that I mean, an array of expletives and words with opposing values, for example "bad" meaning very good..!!
How are people supposed to learn & communicate properly when official language souces give the OK to use gibberish?
They ought to take a more expert stance and say enough is enough, and not give recognition to bastardized and corrupted words.
Trying to normalise wrong-doing is simply not very clever.
GG
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