In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing. And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say "raise the carriage shafts" "raise it" or "trim it."When they should say, "Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!" they say, "Torches! Let's have some light!" Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor "the Hall of the Imperial Lecture," they shorten it to "the Lecture Hal", a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained.

? Words have zero meaning anymore.

yeah if you're a fucking moron. the rest of us use these things to communicate for fuck's sake, don't let this idiot ruin language next.

Unfortunately for him "that's not what I meant" is a pretty terrible legal defense since we don't need what he "meant"

If "what it sounds like to a reasonable listener" is "I did the crime, it was my decision, I'm guilty" then he's guilty.

What he meant is irrelevant.

And the word 'aesthetic' ... please add that to the list.

Not sure what you mean connecting Trump to the word “literally.”