I don't quite get why you've got such a bee in your bonnet about this.
Because as a content creator I hear it over and over and over again, hundreds of times, every time I say the word in a video. That's been happening for the last 7 years. I don't expect non content creators to understand this.
I could delete the comments, or I could ignore the comments, or I could try and educate people so they hopefully stop doing that. I foolishly chose the latter.
I'm done.
Ah, thaar's ya problem. I think you're confusing correctness and style. I was a tech journalist for a number of years and subject to the whims of the style guides of the various publications that I wrote for. I got used to phrasing things the way the editor(s) wanted rather than how I might naturally put it - basically some corners got knocked off. Some things are always going to be a question of style, like whether to split infinitives or not. You're always on a hiding to nothing if you choose to go down the route of defending a
stylistic choice as a
correctness choice.
The giveaway here is your choice above of the word
educate. If you had framed it as "That's how I learned it and I'm going to stick with it; it's a question of style", I think you'd have little argument from most people, certainly not from me. Framing it as "that's the only way to say it" is inviting an argument, especially in a room full of
barrack room lawyers engineers.
A final point, just because I'm an evil bastard. For amusement, try re-reading your last comment and substitute your favourite figure of derision in place of "content creator" - "pommie", "vegan", "millennial snowflake", whatever floats your boat. What does it sound like now?
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