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And this is a linguistic
item, social-linguistic.

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I have heard the misuse of
the word "hopefully" spread

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through the linguistic landscape
with the steady relentless

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thrust of lava from a volcano.

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One here, one there at
first, but now everywhere,

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even senators and professors.

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Hopefully, postmortem, ma'am,
I'll not end up in a hell

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where undoubtfully,
everyone will be saying it.

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