"I refuse to relegate my vocabulary to those who would wish to change it.""You mean "relinquish"? A bit like Rahm talking about people who are "perpetuating" crimes."
Especially to people who favor the word "relinquish".
I thought perhaps "surrender" would have been less awkward. Although it could be a portmanteau of "relinquish" and "delegate", a "new" word that just happened, in this case, to already possess its own definition.
Relinquish would work, but I like relegate here...to diminish or assign to a lower level.
Our language has certainly been diminished over the last 50 years!
With all the repeat offenders in Chicago, maybe Rahm is correct with “perpetuate crimes”! Ha!