Parokki on 18 March 2008
Technically racism is supposed to only refer to the belief that some races are inferior and discrimination based on it, but words change, and stuff like "age racism" is a widely accepted word in Finnish these days.
You could complain that it's not what the word is supposed to mean, but then I'd tell you to go cry in the same corner with the people who think lame should mean the same thing as crippled, disinterested and uninterested should mean totally different things, and it's incorrect to say "third alternative" because the term comes from the Latin word for "second". Oh and awful = awesome, right?
After a few linguistics courses I find it extremely hard to take linguistic prescriptivists seriously.
