Well, Donuel, I love the language though I've never studied it in any formal way. The way we sometimes treat our language, which, let's face it, has been hard-won, frequently reminds me of entropy, in that dumbing down (which is what entropy is, kind of) strips away nuance. I've just spent a week in my beloved Italy. The language is beautifully executed, though, in large part, nuance in Italian, a far more regular language than English, is achieved by hand gesture and incredibly persuasive sing-song phrase endings. I love that and I love how different it is from English, in which nuance is achieved largely by the manipulation of words, though not exclusively by any means (I'm a northerner, tha knows...)

But I'm no pedant, and I love to wantonly split infinitives, and, hopefully, there's nothing wrong with "hopefully." Rules are meant to be broken and breaking rules is how English moves on. Just don't regale me with horrors such as "prior to" or "albeit" and I'll never shout at you!