Please refrain from being nasty to people going out of their way to answer your question. Any longtime English speaker is qualified to make observations about w

Please refrain from being nasty to people going out of their way to answer your question. Any longtime English speaker is qualified to make observations about what is happening in their linguistic community. They went the extra mile to quantify it for you (in a community other than HN, in direct response to your question). You are free to choose how much weight you assign to their observation, and it's fine if it differs from your experience, but it's uncalled for to ask "what they're smoking."