Mom donates more than 100 Amazon packages after delivery mistakeFrustrating that the USPS is so busy delivering Amazon stuff that they can't get their own friggin' mail to work. They have flat out LOST two Priority Mail envelopes, one of which had tax documents in it. Their answer is always the same: tough titties for you. Ahhh, but order a stupid bauble from Amazon and the Post Office truck shows right up on time even on Sunday.
Lately though I've noticed a couple of Amazon trucks in the neighborhood so I guess the volume in the area mandated them.
My sister sent my a packet of photos in the mail weeks ago and they disappeared. No way to trace them. They never made it to my mail box and the post office she mailed then from has no help for her. They were old family photos and now they are lost. Very maddening.Frustrating that the USPS is so busy delivering Amazon stuff that they can't get their own friggin' mail to work. They have flat out LOST two Priority Mail envelopes, one of which had tax documents in it. Their answer is always the same: tough titties for you. Ahhh, but order a stupid bauble from Amazon and the Post Office truck shows right up on time even on Sunday.
Lately though I've noticed a couple of Amazon trucks in the neighborhood so I guess the volume in the area mandated them.
I hate it when people say that something or someone "speaks to" an abstract noun. Where the hell did this nonsense construction come from all of a sudden?
What words are you using to "express concern"? If someone doesn't want to change they won't. If they complain about their condition but don't change I would just walk away. They have access to all the same information the rest of us have.I hate it when I express concern for people like my friends and family who are obese and then get labeled fatphobic. The fat acceptance movement is promoting the early deaths of millions of people worldwide at a time when 72% of adults in the US are either obese or overweight.
In some headlines:Abstract nouns do not have a 'physical' presence, so if I'm understanding correctly one cannot speak to something that is not present...
Could you provide a concrete example? (no pun intended)...
In some headlines:
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"Apple Daily’s fate speaks to Asia’s authoritarian resurgence"
The Clippers' zone defense speaks to what's kept their fight alive
"Clippers’ zone defense vs. Suns speaks to what’s kept their fight alive"
I am seeing it more and more.
Others have noticed:
How to Use Speak to Correctly – Grammarist
I think it has come from America, as it is used more in American media, and I see it in communications from colleagues in the US. It is starting to be adopted this side of the Atlantic too, unfortunately.
I realize that in both examples I gave there are abstract nouns "speaking to" abstract nouns.Good god, both examples are terrible in their word structure but the second example is absolutely horrible...I wonder how old the writer is, 12?...lol
I realize that in both examples I gave there are abstract nouns "speaking to" abstract nouns.