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'hopefully' is a bit of a skunked term #798

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kuahyeow opened this issue May 29, 2018 · 0 comments
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'hopefully' is a bit of a skunked term #798

kuahyeow opened this issue May 29, 2018 · 0 comments
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kuahyeow commented May 29, 2018 •
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I ran into this while running proselint over some of my own writing. This was genuinely surprising to me.

Given that the term seems to have been controversial only from the 1960s, and that the AP have updated their stylebook to accept the new meaning - 'it is hoped', is it possible to remove this from skunked_terms ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/aps-approval-of-hopefully-symbolizes-larger-debate-over-language/2012/04/17/gIQAti4zOT_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d78e398433dd

Also, Garner's Modern English Usage which the file quotes has more to say about this - https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=2xv4CwAAQBAJ&q=hopefully#v=snippet&q=hopefully&f=false.
@Nytelife26 Nytelife26 added the status: awaiting-triage Issues and PRs awaiting investigation and relabelling. label May 29, 2021
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