If English was taught properly in schools you'd know that you can't alight a train. You alight from a train. You don't exit a train. You make an exit from a train. You don;t trial something. You give it a trial or put it on trial.
I blame computers and English teachers who don't know the difference between nouns, verbs and adjectives.
What an abrupt lecture! I was referring to the use of "alighting" rather than "exiting" or "getting off".
I know you can't "alight a train" but
you can say "alight here for" or "when alighting from". Stylistically, it sounds so much better than "exit here for".
Plus, you've picked the
wrong person to rant at - I strongly dislike incorrect language. I have an A* grade in English Language at GCSE and a grade A in English Language at AS-Level. I know all about verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, modal verbs, interrogatives, imperatives, conjunctions and more - do I need to go on?
If something like that rattles you, then you're going to get
very aggravated with "txtspeak".
I find many people speak poorly in spontaneous speech, ignoring grammatical conventions. It's common throughout all the generations and it's exacerbated by dialects - but you can't ban them can you?
Language does also change; look how the English Language has evolved from Shakespearean times. In places, it's almost incomprehensible to users of modern English.
The evolution of language is a continual and unavoidable process and often it has very little relevancy to what is being taught in schools. It's down to cultural influences and big firms, an example of this is the verb "to google" - "I googled it" is now a valid construction. It's present in the Oxford English Dictionary and has also entered other languages.
