Repeat after me
- Good, better, best.
- Bad, worse, worst.
- The best of all possible worlds.
- In the worst case.
- His own worst enemy.
- For better or for worse.
“Worse” and “worst” ARE NOT SYNONYMS. You are using “worse” when you mean “worst”. You know who you are.
For fuck’s sake, we’ve already been saddled with the ludicrous situation where “literally” has become its own antonym. (Merriam-Webster, for one, officially gave up the fight on that one.) Now, when you use the word "literally", nobody knows any more whether you actually MEAN "literally" or "figuratively" or "ironically" or "absolutely not at all". The endgame of using just whatever word comes to hand to mean whatever the fuck you want it to mean right then, is that nobody knows what the fuck you’re talking about because the words coming out of your mouth make no sense except to yourself.
Languages WORK because we agree on what words mean what things. When we just spew arbitrary word-salad, communication breaks down.
