Concerning #grammar & #spelling, I no longer adhere to #prescriptivism as I once did. #Descriptivism dovetails far better with my acquired understanding of language as a living, growing, metamorphosing creature that will not be contained or constrained by any rules we humans try to place upon it.
However.
Choices such as
orientate
conversate
nucular
alot
realitor
michievious
definatly
apart of
will never fail to make me wither away a little on the inside.
It drives me crazy when people say "refute" when they mean "reject" or "repudiate".
But just wait, if the trend continues for another decade or two, the dictionaries will say it's an accepted secondary meaning. Another word will have lost its precision and communication become less clear.