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rest assured that the quickest way to devalue the language would be to insist on a proper version like what various Frenchies are trying to do.
“Can I get?” bugs me however. There’s being incorrect and there’s being obnoxious, and this is both.
Both statements have my wholehearted support.
It’s probably time to put this one to bed as well. 1. It isn’t an Americanism (the phrase appears in British newspapers in the mid 19th C all the time), 2. Strictly speaking; it’s an idiom, so it doesn’t have to make any sense. 3. both are understood to mean the same thing, so just use the one you prefer.
I frequently use ‘I could care less’, by which I mean ‘I could care less, but by such a minuscule amount as makes no difference’.
And I’ll continue to do so, irrespective of whether it makes people’s heads explode! 🤯 😁
Train station.
I’ve never had an issue with this but apparently it should be railway station.
I'm with you. A station is where something stops or is positioned. Railways don't move (or shouldn't) so they don't stop. Trains stop, and the place where they are intended to stop is a station.
The one I find difficult is "That's not an option". Does it mean "That's impossible" or "That's compulsory"? I honestly don't know - sometimes you can guess from the context.
rest assured that the quickest way to devalue the language would be to insist on a proper version like what various Frenchies are trying to do.
Indeed or like textbook Latin, though English being a world language and also a living one this could never be enforced. Though I get that there are people of a more mechanical mindset who'd like rules of speaking English to be laws of physics...