>I think it allows greater flexibility for humor and subtext than ever.

It has more ambiguity because we had many similar words for similar things that are differential in some minor way.

Now everything can mean anything, it is leaning more expressive with less precision, English's best quality is that it balances the precise and the expressive, the craft is gone and if you misunderstand what I've written because I've used the wrong words that's your fault.