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samuarl  ·  4833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why it's suddenly trendy to speak like an idiot
Complaining about how language is used is almost always pointless. Wether you agree with a certain usage is largely irrelevant if you can derive the speakers intention from it. By taking all of the examples out of their respective registers and examining them with a different formality than intended by the speaker it's relatively easy to poke fun at their usage.

Whilst I agree that some phrases can be incredibly irksome this kind of lexical snobbery attempts to stifle evolution of language.