Debate: Pacific v specific

This is just one more example of a slow and systematic rape of the English language.

Some would say it is an example of misuse of the language, but is your use of "rape" misuse or merely hyperbole?

Do we have to stand by and allow same?

No, you could point it out but, as recently happened to me in a similar case, they might say "Stop trying to reduce the logical range of the English language".

Are people just ignorant ?

Invariably, but ignorant of what? For example I suspect you are ignorant of my mother's maiden name but I would not suggest that that reflected badly on you or your education as, conversely, I have to admit that I am equally ignorant of your mother's maiden name!

Sadly though, few are just ignorant, there are those who are also innumerate.

More to the point regarding this topic, many are, to some degree, illiterate.

George

We do stand by for the big ones, the large atrocities to the English language. And then these little ones just slip through on the big ones.

The whole counterintelligence business is based on wrongly defined words. What a job, just ruin and corrupt all things and you get a bonus. Must take real intelligent folk to run that.
Basically just defecate where you live. And maybe the enemy will do the same. Or maybe the enemy will not see anything he wants in a place were we defecate where we live.

All our engineering and sciences are totally in ruins because of such word games. We are in the dark ages. The last folk I knew that really understood the universe are getting old.

Sincerely,

William McCormick

shouldn't that be ignorent?...

...Are people just ignorant ?

...there shouldn't be a space between the last leter of the word and the question mark, just like any other punctuation mark