Linguist drift sadly happens due to not enough effort being put in correcting people who use words incorrectly.Lightknight said:That's not true. Linguistic drift happens all the time. For example, agnosticism was created as a point of indecision between atheism and theism in which John Huxley proclaimed that he doesn't know which is right so he needs not change. Yet this term has been assigned to things like Agnostic Atheism and Agnostic Theism in direct contrast to the intention of the term.
You have absolutely no say in what is the correct or incorrect definition of anything. I don't either. It's a social construct and as such is entirely vulnerable to the fancies and fluxuations of society. For better or worse, that is true regardless of yours or my opinions of what a word should be.
As for the definition of "miracle"? I assume you meant literal but I just wanted to bring up the fact that a herd of Unicorns is called a miracle.
As far as your example of Agnosticism, its a state of not knowing. This does not mean there can be no adgostic atheism or agnositc theism. you can Not know but thing there is no god or not know but think there is one. the two are not mutually exclusive.
So then definitions are meaningless because everyone can just make up whatever they want. no wonder insulting people is now considered "Feminism".