This mostly seems like "English as I don't like her spoken"; only pt. 2 (thanks to tapanjk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780499 https://news.ycombinat

This mostly seems like "English as I don't like her spoken"; only pt. 2 (thanks to tapanjk (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780499) !) seemed to describe any actual wrong language, as opposed simply to phrasing of which the author disapproved. With that said, I don't understand the complaint from pt. 4, recapitulated (as morinted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780372 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14780372) points out) from pt. 3, about: > you may hear that your train was “originally due to depart from Platform 4”, but “will now depart from Platform 6”. What’s “originally” doing there? Surely 'originally' is serving exactly the purpose it claims to serve, of describing the state of affairs before the alteration? What would be a better word? If the suggested alternative is to omit the description of the 'original' entirely: though I'm not much experienced with the London Underground, I know that, on the Amtrak, if I paid attention to every announcement I would go mad, so I have a subconscious routine that perks up conscious attention only when it detects something that seems likely to me. If I am waiting at Platform 4, I probably won't notice a random, unprefaced announcement about Platform 6; but I am much more likely to notice it if it points out that those of us at Platform 4 should be paying attention to it.