Sorry - I meant to respond to this too:

"What you are proposing is not a re-definition, but an abandoning of the existing one because it has become meaningless and undefinable, which to me is cultural vandalism."

Yes that is what I am proposing, but it is NOT cultural vandalism.

It is the way that language is, and was, and always will be.

Go read a bit a Chaucer, then tell me that that the reason you don't understand much is because of cultural vandalsim. (Ok, the Norman Conquest was - but even that is just What Happens).