People still want to say it. You can feel it coming as they babble bullshitishly but usually they can just about check themselves and say "in the future" instead.
Unfortunately, though, we now have everyone saying "in the future", unnecessarily, when it's patently obvious what the tense is.
2 comments:
It's nearly fallen out of favour all right, but only because it's slowly being replaced by the none-more-gittish qualifier 'on a go-forward basis'. Look out for it.
I might stick this in an email to see if the earth continues to revolve around it's axis. I once stuck "going backwards" (meaning in the past) into an email and no-one batted an eyelid.
Post a Comment