for the last fucking time

[rone]

"Didn't this used to be..." is WRONG. "Did" is past tense, so "used" need not be. "Didn't this use to be..." is the right way to write that. Hell, i even found this written wrong in American Gods.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

No, the stamping out of ungrammatical ungrammatical idioms.

I did consider "useta" as a viable alternative. However, my position on this is such: In English, the verb "to use" is used in an auxiliary manner, in the exact way the verb "soler" is used in Spanish. As such, it should be used in a consistent manner, even if it isn't technically conjugated.

So quit trying to justify lexical abominations, you little rat finks. I will only bend so far.