Oh, yes, I did....... but HE didn't! He actually spelled it "acedemic" on the press release!
I am frequently calling up the student newspaper to point out "peaked his curiosity" (instead of "piqued") and other such errors, too. (Pretty pathetic for a bunch of grads from the vaunted Peabody School of Journalism!)
Yes, language is always "evolving"; but misuses are misuses,* and with them dies the subtlety of meaning which makes a language articulate. The disdain for precise speaking which we encounter among so many souls today is a symptom of a wider disdain of precision, IMHO, and with that goes a society's collapse. (So, yes, it DOES matter!)
Thumpe
* I suspect that the crowd that condones sloppy word usage the same bunch encouraging everyone to quit bathing, so that we will all "develop our immune systems"!
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