I hate the word "APOLOGY"

[kandrathe]

"Apology" has 2 signifigant meanings and essentially they are opposites.

- An acknowledgment expressing regret or asking pardon for a fault or offense.

- A justification or defense or explanation or excuse.
Really we should be able to do better as a society. 
We need a system to re-evaluate words and fix the most absurd definitions. We should denote for all time one of the meanings as being archaic. This of course isnt the only case where some work is needed; its just the one irking me tonight.
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Hmm, απολογία, eh? From greek, "a plea".

I disagree (διαφωνώ). I like the quilt of our language, and its flexibility in meaning. It is pretty humbling to stand in Mycenae, a site that was first inhabited 6000 years ago and ponder humanities debt to the Greeks. And, then to marvel at sharing this verbal history while resting in Epidavros, sitting in the ancient theatre re-reading some Aristophanes who said, "Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." or "Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay."