The left has been stealing the language for quite some time. It's a tactic.
They don't want precision. They want to limit thought by limiting the language, by redefining the meaning of words.
“This act of stealing is a tactic.”
Be careful of your thoughts, for they become your words. Be careful of your words, for they become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for they become your character. Be careful of your character, for it becomes your destiny.
In my humble opinion texting is doing very severe and lasting damage to the English language. Another generation or two and nobody will be capable of writing a non-machine generated complete sentence.
This has apparently already infested the journalism school graduates who write the screen-bottom scrawl for cable news channels.