On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:25:06PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > i asked native english speaker, > > > apparently, taking awhile is always 'sarcastic', and never short. > > > > Not according to dictionaries[1][2][4]. I've never thought "awhile" as > > a sarcastic usage. > > Well I've never seen awhile written without a space so you can take > this with a pinch of salt but I've heard > > "I'm gonna be a while so I'll have to give it a miss" and I've never > heard it rather than something like "I won't be long" even if in > reality that always means they will be ages ;-).
This seems like a disturbing trend to me. are we going to turn www into a dumbed-down international english slang ? ...
