Re: "That there are legitimate uses of parallelism is enough to make my point." -- Yes, there are niches that need such; I don't dispute that. "Faddism" is a ma

Re: "That there are legitimate uses of parallelism is enough to make my point." -- Yes, there are niches that need such; I don't dispute that. "Faddism" is a matter of degree. Every big language shoehorning in lots of X because niche Y needs X is probably a case of faddism. Again, we'd probably have to examine specific instances. English by itself won't settle this.