Befriending
Aug. 27th, 2007 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's always nice when someone asks to become your friend. Welcome
daksian!
But the usual way of expressing that 'to friend someone' is a horridly ungrammatical turn of phrase. There is an already existing and delightful term that would perfectly fulfil the function: 'to befriend'.
So next time you find someone you'd like to be friends with, why not befriend them instead?
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But the usual way of expressing that 'to friend someone' is a horridly ungrammatical turn of phrase. There is an already existing and delightful term that would perfectly fulfil the function: 'to befriend'.
So next time you find someone you'd like to be friends with, why not befriend them instead?
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Date: 2007-08-28 12:11 pm (UTC)Maybe I should move into advertising?
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Date: 2007-08-28 01:16 pm (UTC)But yeah, I can do without the 'ur' instead of 'your' or 'you're', and the like. So befriending it is!