![]() It is a different experience squeezing through a small rock crevice when you have larger boobs than if you have smaller boobs. She has to squeeze through tiny rock crevices all the time. “She’s a tomb raider, so she’s incredibly fit. And that is a very unusual position to be in. ![]() And if I can do something dangerous and exciting with Tomb Raider, I already have an audience of people who love Lara and hopefully will continue to. There’s room to do something really quite dangerous. “I feel like when you’re working in the industry, you’ve got to ride the waves and lean in. What if I could take the reins on an action franchise, with everything I’ve learned, with a character I adore, and also just bring back some of that ’90s vibe? And it’s such a wonderful feeling to think you know what to do.” Having worked on Bond and having worked as an actor on Indy, I feel like I’ve been building up to this. Our own Dictionary of English Usage offers the following advice: “You can use it if you need it, or avoid it if you do not like it.“The opportunity to have, as we were talking earlier, a female action character…. Some usage guides have come to accept the newfangled sense, while others still feel that it is incorrect. None of these seem to have had much effect, as the sentence adverb use of hopefully has continued to grow. In that sentence, hopefully is behaving like a sentence adverb. But about 300 years later, people started using hopefully to mean I hope, as in Hopefully, I’ll get some of that chocolate. Squiggly is looking in a hopeful manner at the chocolates. The use of hopefully as a sentence adverb increased in the middle of the 20th century, prompting a number of guardians of the language to issue rules, warnings, and admonitions that it was a thing to be avoided. Paul is correct that hopefully is an adverb in that sentence. It should be noted that the use of hopefully as a sentence adverb was not widespread until fairly recently (although there are occasional instances of it through the 18th and 19th centuries). Samuel Hartlib, A Further Discoverie of the Office of Publick Address for Accomodations, 1648 This Discourse hath fully approved itself unto the Judgement of all those that have seen it hitherto, and hopefully it would have wrought some effect upon those that mannage the Affairs of this State, if the Danger of this last Commotion, had not employed all their strength and Attention, to save us from sudden Shipwreck. But the use of hopefully in this fashion is not modern, unless you adopt a definition of modern that means “occurring at any point after Shakespeare.” The earliest “modern usage” of hopefully that we are aware of comes from the middle of the 17th century. One possibility is that this use is seen as modern, and there is a curious and seemingly implacable feeling that many people have that linguistic change is evidence of some moral and intellectual decline. We have a large number of adverbs that perform this function ( thankfully, ideally, luckily, etc.), but few, if any of them have aroused the degree of ire that hopefully has. In the citation above the adverb surely is not intended to indicate that a person thinks of something “in a sure manner” it qualifies the entire statement, and has the meaning of “assuredly” (another word that is often used as a sentence adverb). ”Crabtree’s Complaint,” The Spirit of the Public Journals, 1803 ![]() “At church!” cried she “surely you don’t think us so barbarously unfashionable as to go to church!” A sentence adverb modifies the meaning of an entire statement (as opposed to the adverb of manner, which modifies a single word or phrase). Hopefully can be used as a sentence adverb (also referred to occasionally as an adverbial disjunct). However, this is not the only manner in which hopefully functions, no matter how much people might wish it were otherwise. The issue that some people have with the preceding sentence is that hopefully should rightfully be confined to meaning “in a hopeful manner,” and to write that “in a hopeful manner people will stop debasing the English language” just doesn’t make much sense. As in “Hopefully, people will stop debasing the English language, and we can all go back to writing as Chaucer did.” It was the sense of hopefully that we define as “it is hoped: I hope: we hope.” Hopefully, that's good enough for you.īut what could this “modern usage” of hopefully be? Was it perhaps, as is the case with literally, one in which the word took on a meaning that was close to opposite of its commonly accepted one? Did it have something to do with millennials? Was it one in which the word lost all meaning? Not quite. ![]() 'Hopefully' has been used as a sentence adverb since at least 1648. ![]()
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