Maybe. But I have to try. And if I can get a few to join me, well, who knows what may happen. It came into usage because someone started saying it. Maybe I can push it out of usage again.
I watch this forum often and see people use there, their and they're interchangeably and incorrectly, there's no way I can correct all of them, I don't even try.
Those are grammar mistakes. I wouldn't even try to correct grammar or spelling. For one thing I live in a glass house... But in a few cases the words are used to define something so that it sound different then what it is.
Take "undocumented worker" What is that? Well, it means someone who is working who is not carrying proper id. Most of my workday I am an "undocumented worker". Why would I carry my purse around with me? And it is used because it sounds harmless or at least not as bad as "illegal alien." That is why they use it. And that is why I call them on it.
And, no more than me, you don't know the legal immigration status of this Indian family in Roanoke, Virginia.
Never said that I did.
And, I think its worth checking their status.
Go ahead. And if they are illegal aliens they should be thrown out on their ear.
At the bottom line, it appears we agree -- that's good, it always feels better to agree.