I agree on genuinely confusing words like "sanction," but not when it comes to prescriptivist pedantry, which is just classism justified by spurious rules.
An editor's job is to make your writing as clear as possible to the average reader. If an editor tells me, "The common usage of this word is wrong because that's not how Cicero would have understood it," I'm going to stop listening to their advice.
If you tell me that "decimate" can only mean "to reduce by 1/10th," you better pronounce it with a hard-c sound like in proper Latin, otherwise you're using a modern English word that means "devastate."
"Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks." -Roger Ebert
Props to MySpace Tom for cashing out and letting the venture capitalists run his creation into the ground.
Because then you'd realize none of your friends use Facebook anymore.
Group chat.
He spent too much time with Adam Baldwin.
More importantly, witch trials were often driven by societal elites, not ignorant peasants. Heinrich Institor was a well-educated priest who wrote the Malleus Maleficarum because a peasant woman made fun of him for believing in witchcraft. King James and Cotton Mather were likewise educated men.