antibiotic = 'effective medicine' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Charles C Doyle]

The new sense will make it easier for doctors to accommodate the demands of their patients that antibiotics be prescribed for a cold or the flu.  Aspirin as antibiotic.

--Charlie

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Does this fall into the category of

1. "Language evolution" or

2.  "Ashleigh Banfield is ignorant of the English language, an odd thing
for one whose job should require fluency thereof"



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> A "diagnostic" example.
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> Ashleigh Banfield of CNN, interviewing a woman who was cured of a
> horrible brain illness, repeatedly describes the treatments as
> "antibiotics." More specifically, they were "Prednazone and immune
> therapies."
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