Grammar poll

[prog]

"Hopefully, she will arrive on time."

[Poll #757225]

Comments

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

I do use it in speech, and parse it just fine whenever someone else uses it. However, I've become so sensitized to this usage that in any more considered context, I tend to rephrase it as "I am hopeful that..." -- which is usually the point anyway.