The decline in civilization parallels that of language.So we've been declining since Middle English was in use?
This horrible word is a neologism of illiterate computer "science".So they had computers back then too?
Regardless of what your opinion of the word is, the fact remains that it's 1) completely proper to use and 2) not some word recently ginned up to take part in the "decline of civilization".
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