Huzzah!
Thanks to Steven Pinker, I can stop being annoyed when people start a sentence with 'Hopefully'. The language purists had me believing this was grammatically illogical or downright incorrect and should be avoided.
But in fact, like others of its ilk - sentence adverbs including curiously, admittedly, basically and ideally - it's not.
Just another sign of our constantly evolving language.
Wikipedia says "it is unclear why hopefully has been singled out for deprecation" but there's an explanation and nice summary of arguments for and against it here.
Frankly, i'm all for it..... now.
Honestly, when one starts a sentence with 'Hopefully' we all know exactly what they mean - and isn't communication all that matters?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
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