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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 05, 2022, 01:49:57 pm ---It's great that we have options now!
I was thinking back to winter days when it took 3 hours to get to the office. And 3 hours to get home!
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So on top of a 40-hour week you were commuting 30? Wow!
My commute (plus parking in a ramp, walking a few blocks to the building, going up the elevator etc.) was an hour round trip. SO glad not to have to do that these days! Especially when today's high was 1 degree F. I SO hated going back into the parking ramp after work in the freezing pitch dark.
Today I had to leave the building and arrive to a school, about 40 minutes each way. Freezing but sunny, my car heats up nicely, so the drive wasn't bad.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 06, 2022, 10:58:30 pm ---Today I had to leave the building and arrive to a school, about 40 minutes each way.
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I understand this is becoming common usage--the language evolves and all that, so, please, let's not go there again--but whenever this comes across my desk, I edit it to "in" or "at," as seems appropriate. Same deal with "arrival to"; I see that fairly often.
I'm classifying this with using an apostrophe to make something plural. I see that, too. Just yesterday, I saw it in an article attributed to CNN. In this case it was a proper name, "the Sutherland's." >:(
In my work, if the editors don't like it, they can change it back. (I used plural here because almost but not all the editors are cis-female.)
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 07, 2022, 09:44:40 am ---I understand this is becoming common usage--the language evolves and all that, so, please, let's not go there again--but whenever this comes across my desk, I edit it to "in" or "at," as seems appropriate. Same deal with "arrival to"; I see that fairly often.
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Oh no, you could feel free to edit mine! It was a mistake -- I would say "arrive at" as well. I must have reworded the sentence and forgot to change it; maybe I started with "drive to."
I'm not sure I've come across "arrive to" myself, even as common usage. And while I am often a proponent of letting language evolve with common usage, I have my own b?tes noires about common usage, such as the use of literally to describe something that's not literal but figurative.
Except maybe as in, "I leave work, go home and arrive to find the house a mess."
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 08, 2022, 05:47:20 pm ---Oh no, you could feel free to edit mine! It was a mistake -- I would say "arrive at" as well. I must have reworded the sentence and forgot to change it; maybe I started with "drive to."
I'm not sure I've come across "arrive to" myself, even as common usage. And while I am often a proponent of letting language evolve with common usage, I have my own b?tes noires about common usage, such as the use of literally to describe something that's not literal but figurative.
Except maybe as in, "I leave work, go home and arrive to find the house a mess."
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I see a lot of "arrival to" at work, as in "arrival to the emergency department."
I found something on line about using arrive in a sentence, but unfortunately the link is on my work laptop, so I can't post it here right now. I do remember, however, that "arrive to find the house a mess" is perfectly OK because in this case arrive doesn't refer to a place.
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!
I hope everyone is doing well!
I worked from home on Friday, in my apartment rather than my parents' place. We didn't get the full 6 inches. I believe we got more about 4. It was light and fluffy, very easy to clean off car and surrounding area.
One benefit of working at the apartment was that I was able to get all of the Christmas stuff taken down and packed away. I was done with that by 3:00 or so on Friday, so I was able to relax this weekend, since everything is done.
Laundry day tomorrow, while I'm at mom and dad's place.
Other than that, not much is going on.
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