Well gnu, I'm with you 110% ;-) but I fear you're fighting a losing battle. Once a construction becomes common parlance, we're stuck with it, generally speaking. Horrible things such as "alright", "try and", "hopefully" and "disinterested" (for "uninterested") are so often written or spoken that it's hardly worth fighting on the retreat. They will eventually become standard English whether we like it or not. Certain things I find utterly unacceptable and I'll go to me grave fighting 'em. They mostly come under the category of "people of semi-literate tendencies trying to use clever words". I will fart in your general direction, for example, if you ever use "albeit" or "prior to".