I get very annoyed when people use 'allow' when they mean

He was correct, though.

You lefty language changers are currently in full-on English assault mode, changing words to mean whatever you feel like today, so I get that you don't get what the teacher was talking about.

We had woke police also and de platformed the caretaker twice.

Sometimes you just have to let things go. Back in the ‘80s I was constantly being annoyed by people using “hopefully” to mean “I hope that.” Hopefully is an adverb, to wit, “Hopefully the sun will be up soon” is wrong. BUT, you can wait hopefully for the dawn. But it was so pervasive that I just had to give up on it.

Now, I have three peeves that I am not hopeful of ever being correct again. I may have written about this on some other board and thread. Anywho, the first is saying “different than…” I hear this on TV and in movies all the time. It is like fingernails on a blackboard. Professional writers should know better. It should be “different FROM.”

The second is “this is just between you and I.” A preposition takes the objective case, so, “between (or “for”) you and ME.”

The last is people not knowing when to use less and when to use fewer. Here is how to tell: if you are modifying a plural noun use “fewer.” If it is a singular noun, use “less.” I once heard a local news anchor say, “There will be less teachers in the local school district next year. “Teachers” is plural. “Fewer” for quantity but “less” for quality, is another way to look at it.

Fewer teachers, less education
Fewer dollars, less money
Fewer smarts, less intelligence
Fewer volts, less power

However, just for the ears of you and me, I am not hopefully expecting any change back to standard English usage. I will not be hearing fewer incorrect uses, nor less ignorance of correct grammar. Like I said at the head of this post: Sometimes you just have to let things go.