The problem is that we try to defend you, @MerriamWebster, by correcting incorrect usage, but you eventually undermine our support by saying: "If people are wrong long enough, then we give in and make them right." (See, for example, how "literally" now also means "figuratively.")

@MerriamWebster Good heavens, someone actually just informed me that "language is never static." I dost fear that I most assuredly can't countenance such misbegotten villiany save for an extra measure of forbearance!

@MerriamWebster Well, it's been fun, and I leave you all with a serious question: Have we reached the point where, "You know, tariffs or tyranny or literally or grifting or illegals (or whatever) doesn't mean what all those people think, but we need to accept it because language is evolving"?

@JeffersRoad It’s not “giving in,” it’s documenting how people actually use the language. Dictionaries define the breadth of the language, and not simply the elegant parts at the top.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster Your problem is you fundamentally misunderstand what the purpose of a dictionary is.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster Yes, you are right. Nothing ever changes. Words are not added to our vocabulary. Inventions do not require names. Definitions remain stagnant. Nations are not added to, or subtracted from, our planet. I must go now and pound my clothes clean on rocks along the stream out back.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster In the course of my lifetime, as one example, the word “bad” came to mean “good” and the reverted, and none of that was the fault of the dictionary.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster you’re mad at how language works, man at some point hopefully you can let go of this prescriptivist bullshit. continually evolving language is fucking awesome and actually pretty fascinating if you just let go of that voice in your head that whines about it.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster Excuse me, I am very familiar with English historically and can't believe you'd use this strange modern version to write instead of REAL English the way it's meant to be (circa 1500). You're using words that are less than 100 years old. Hold yourself to a higher standard

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster your approach is prescriptivist, most dictionaries and cultures nowadays follow a largely descriptivist linguistic approach because they recognize that language is constantly evolving and to prescribe how to use would be to stall its development.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster Literally no one uses "literally" *to mean* "figuratively". People use "literally" in a figurative sense for emphasis.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster Language is a living thing. It evolves.

@JeffersRoad @MerriamWebster First time I ever heard someone scolding the dictionary. Next do algebra