Hot debate over ‘hopefully’
From Geoff Nunberg’s “Fresh Air” essay on hopefully:
“You hear people saying that a misused ‘hopefully’ or ‘literally’ makes them want to put their shoe through the television screen, but nobody ever actually does that — what it really makes them want to do is tell you how they wanted to put a shoe through the television screen. It’s all for display, like rhesus monkeys baring their teeth and pounding the ground with their palms.”
* The word “hopefully” is here to stay, hopefully (NPR)
* AP: We now support the modern usage of “hopefully” (JimRomenesko.com)
* AP Stylebook adds fashion terms, expands social media section (AP.org)
