Cheaper (but not as awesome) leg bone leggings - [link]

I use "nauseated" correctly but never correct others, thanks to maternal conditioning. I use "hopefully" incorrectly but hear my mother chiding me in my head every. single. time.

My cat just (accidentally) scratched my throat when I moved her off the kitchen table. Owie.

Aw, man, I'm so sad that these tights come in child sizes only.

I suspect I have been using "hopefully" incorrectly, because I have no idea what incorrectly is. ?

And yet, isn't "Thou shalt not bear false witness" one of the Big Ten?

That's Notre Dame.

I suspect I have been using "hopefully" incorrectly, because I have no idea what incorrectly is. ?

Hopefully, you are using it to mean "full of hope," as in, "The poor orphan girl looked up hopefully at the stodgy rich man," and not as I have used it, to mean "I hope."

Cheaper (but not as awesome) leg bone leggings - [link]

Why is the model wearing high heels? Call me an old fogey, but leggings should be worn with flats!

Hopefully, you are using it to mean "full of hope," as in, "The poor orphan girl looked up hopefully at the stodgy rich man," and not as I have used it, to mean "I hope."

Huh. In that case, yes, I'm definitely in the wrong camp. I think I'm ok with that, though.

YOU ARE NOT DOING IT WRONG. Hopefully is not wrong. Nauseous is not wrong. "Begs the question" is not wrong. There isn't actually a fact of the matter, other than sheer pedantry.

sits with bon bon in the 'we're all right' corner. Come join us, and wear the world as your hat.

Popular usage of "begs the question" bugs me because I first learned the logical fallacy and having everyone use the phrase to mean something else makes it that much harder to remember my logical fallacies. Logic and I need all the help we can get keeping our relationship cordial.

I use hopefully "wrong" all the time, though. I do consider whether it is confusing or ambiguous when I do, and it usually isn't, so I go right ahead.