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CERTAIN ENGLISH WORDS, at certain stages of their lives, remind me of endangered children. They are abused, exploited, devalued and debased, with their integrity and dignity set at nought by those who have kidnapped them. Examples of these wayward waifs of language are relevant, meaningful, caring, ethnic and community. All these were born as proper English words, their pedigrees recorded in the dictionary. But alas, they have been led astray.
The one I have chiefly in mind at the moment is community; if language had a children's court I should certainly apply for a protection order for it.
That poor word was ever in (and out of) the mouth of Victoria's ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The old Territory. (Ryan).