It's common to say it that way, but that doesn't make it proper. As George Orwell argued in his 1946 essay 'Politics and the English language' (http://www.orwel

It's common to say it that way, but that doesn't make it proper. As George Orwell argued in his 1946 essay 'Politics and the English language' (http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit): clarity of language is closely bound to clarity of thought. Everyone should be encouraged to write as clearly as possible, to avoid confusion and muddling of thoughts. Of course, the grandparent overstates his case and is unconstructive as a result. His fallacy is that he argues that someone must be an idiot, because they make a trivial error. Which overlooks the fact that trivial errors are made by experts all the time, exactly because it's a trivial point that doesn't have their attention. You wouldn't believe the silly errors PhD's fix in the papers of fellow PhD's.