Third rate (but aren’t they all that, at best, now?) “news” broadcast. “Communications major” (well, apparently *sigh*), blow-dried airhead talking about a storm, particularly a falling tree that “. . .narrowly avoided hitting a family. . .” as though the tree itself had some sort of agency and could of itself AVOID hitting the family, because it wasn’t just wind and gravity, no! The TREE itself could apparently affect its fall and AVOID hitting that po’ family it had previously (apparently) “aimed” itself at. #gagamaggot No, it narrowly missed hitting the family, by chance, but avoidance requires agency (even in passive voice).
But nowadays, since Hivemind audiences are almost all subliterates themselves, who really cares?
Language is one of the few things that actually evolves. Or rather, devolves. Distinctions are erased and meaning twisted. Apparently it’s too hard to use your brain anymore. Which has a lot to do with the inversion of values in society too.
That and the fall.
I have no issues with language evolving. It’s the devolution of language I decry. *heh*