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"A language is a contract under which there is a general, although unconscious, agreement as to where words are moving. To use a word in a fashion that impedes communication with others is therefore a foul... If a significant proportion of the people speaking a language are using a word in a way that dictionaries tend not to mention, it means that the word is moving..."