(November 18, 2012 at 9:12 pm)Annik Wrote: Not that I agree with Germans on this issue, but dictionaries just report how a word is used, not how it should be used.
Not this again. Dictionaries list the meanings of words. Just because some people don't like to use the conventional meaning of words does not make dictionaries less valid. In fact, it is this very odd word anarchy that so often makes communication in the English language so utterly exasperating. If we all run around interpreting and using words as we see fit, communicating becomes less communicating and more grunting meaningless sounds at each other. I've seen and had conversations that wasted minutes to hours when in the end of that time period someone said, "Oh, we agree. We just have different definitions." Happened to me and Tibs the other day. Can't fucking remember what the word was.
