Enough people confused "conflate" with "confuse", so now, the meaning of "confuse" is conflated with the meaning of "conflate"...
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To arms, my fellow prescriptivists! Death to the new meaning.
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I guess if enough people misuse a word we should just alter the word. So "prolly" should prolly be in the dictionary
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That is the only way I've ever used the word!
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Also interesting that conflate means to meld or bring together, but wouldn't "con" and "fuse" be the perfect roots for that?
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I have somehow conflated these two definitions and see them as indistinguishable.
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We need an investigation:
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