This is one of the better posts I've read on OKP. Thanks so much. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Moreover, dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. They are always scrambling to catch up to the ways that people make use of language.
"You see you wouldn't ask why the rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals. On the contrary, we would all celebrate its tenacity. We would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the rose - this is the concrete - and these are my dam