On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > Just a question: in spoken language, which one do you use?
>
> I think it is context dependent. I would say:
>
> "I think this child has made a good set of adaptions to her difficult
> home environment" (object of sentence).
>
> "His adaptation to living in France has been multi-facited" (subject
> of sentence).
>
> It smacks to me of the horrible American usage of words, like saying
> "orientated" when all they mean is "oriented" <g>. Simpler is
> better, so adaption might win in the end.
>
Actually, orientated is incorrect, not just a bad choice. Like irregardless,
it's a non-word used by people who want to sound educated even
though they aren't.
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