• Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Here’s a fantastic example: sentient, sapient, and concious. These are VERY different words with wildly different meanings, but they’re practically treated as synonyms in colloquial usage. The only way to properly express them now is to use their entire definitions, and then people question why you’re being so specific or excluding certain things.