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I'm certainly guilty of misusing "afterwards" and "towards," and probably more. I also find myself rewriting e-mails to avoid "hopefully" once or twice a week.
Robert: Yes, language does change -- but it's in the interests of all language-users to do their bit to keep it from changing in the direction of being less precise and more confusing.
Every time someone uses "less" to describe a countable item, the Sad Baby Jesus cries.
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Hopefully, a list such as this is mostly unique in its nitpickery on some of these items. Language, it changes.
Robert: Yes, language does change -- but it's in the interests of all language-users to do their bit to keep it from changing in the direction of being less precise and more confusing.
Every time someone uses "less" to describe a countable item, the Sad Baby Jesus cries.
Well, Sad Baby Jesus *would* do that.
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