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Younger me would agree 100% in changing the meaning of the word to be what everyone expects it to be.
Younger me? I’d want to change the meaning of that word to this now even at my current age.
But then you lose great puns, which are half the reason English is such a great language. Consider “American Idiot”:
Welcome to a new kind of tension All across the alien nation Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
The song works significantly better by using a pun, to say that it’s a nation of the alienated.
I love the Philomena Cunk speech bubble encompassing what the other person posted. Clever.
It’s not an alien nation?