Befriending

[girlyswot]

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?

Comments

[daksian.livejournal.com]

Thanks girlyswot, and a very good point indeed about grammar. Sadly, there are far too many 'shortcuts' taken with internet, and I'm guilty of using them from time to time (though I have to admit, 'lol' is much easier to write than 'laughing out loud' all the time!)

But yeah, I can do without the 'ur' instead of 'your' or 'you're', and the like. So befriending it is!