More like muddling the language.
How many meanings can a word have before using it in communications becomes ineffective?
Language murder. I think Ashton has a lecture on that! :)
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov