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words mean what people use them as. antisemitic is used primarily to describe antijudaism
prescriptivists in shambles
When have prescriptivists ever not been in shambles? Language is basically an exercise in bullying prescriptivists.
> people are using a word WRONG> I tell them they need to stop using it wrong and start using it right> they brush me off and continue to use the word the way they were using it>I am shambling, yes.