to think that the whole of MN uses the word 'entitled' to mean the exact opposite of what I think it means?

[RachelWatts]

I keep seeing posts where grabby, selfish people are described as 'entitled', which to be honest usually throws me because I always thought the word meant something similar to 'allowed'.

So if I ask what I'm entitled to, I want to know what I can reasonably expect as my due.

Which seems opposite to the rest of MN, as it looks like when someone is described as entitled, they have an unreasonable expectation.

There are copious threads on here taking about the fluidity of language and how wonderful it is that new words are formed and slang becomes mainstream creating cultural enrichment etc etc.

I see it on par with the above, 'a sense of entitlement' has been abbreviated to 'entitled'. I'm not sure if it's a MN quiche, but I don't think it's that complicated to figure out once you see it in the context of the post.

What angers me more is loose and lose. The amount of people that don't know the difference!!

No, Tiggy, somebody's got my goat! I've been on at the DWP about my entitlement to a goat for years now. They keep saying I've already got their goat, but no cloven-hooved mammals have arrived at my house

If I don't get my goat soon, I'm gonna loose it.

Have you written to the goat board Garlic?

Sorry! The Goat Board.

Or you could complain to Offgoat, the regulator.

I do find the MN use of 'entitled' to mean 'undeserving' a tad dissonant on the threads where it is most often found.

I didn't know there was a governing body for goat's Never heard off Offgoat, either, I will ring them for advise. Thanks, Tiggy!

Oxford Dictionary of English, OUP, revised ed. 2005
entitle 1. (often be entitled) give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something

1. give (something) a particular title: a satire entitled 'The Rise of the Meritocracy'.

Chambers Dictionary, 1993
entitle to give a title to; to style; to give a right or claim to; – n entitlement something to which one has a right or claim

No sign of anything to do with self-importance or inherent privileges or special treatment.

So the OP is right that this is a change in usage to the word's opposite.

And now I'm entitled to therapy for my wrists after hefting those volumes around!