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Originally Posted by DawnMarch
It's funny because I was just griping about this the other day. There was one of those ads that was like "go ahead, you deserve it" or something along those lines. I hate the modern use of deserve to mean that everyone "deserves" everything that they want.
The use of the work deserve in the context of earning something you've worked for doesn't bug me though. I kind of feel like that's how it should be used -- assuming it's true.
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That is a great distinction to make, and yes, it is how it is being used that gets to me the most.
I still prefer to say a person worked for something or earned it rather than say deserve because those ways recognize that they did something to get what they wanted. I think it is important that people, especially kids, know that you get what you work for, not what you think you "deserve."