Usage wars: territory conceded

I have noticed I've given up on a few "wrong" usages which had riled me considerably in the past.
"Hacking" for criminal computer usage, instead of tooling around with a piece of software to improve it.
"Hopefully" as a sentence adverb (I had to Google the term - using it at the start of a sentence instead of "I hope that").
What usages make you wince, begin to correct, then laissez-faire?

shit this is basically the same thread I started last year, isn't it

"Hopefully" used as a sentence adverb was never wrong. The people who said it was wrong were wrong. So it's good to let that go.

I find myself more likely to concede linguistically by using neologisms I don't like, especially in the office. I still haven't come around to "impactful" but I would also never suggest it is wrong... I just don't like it.

Positive anymore used to throw me, but now I love hearing it in the wild.

decimate

"Hopefully," is like a stage direction for yourself made public

Both senses of the word are still kinda in play... you could say "he went hopefully to the job interview" and "hopefully he went to the job interview" and I think most English speakers would get the distinction, which is quite meaningful! the placement of hopefully within the sentence matters now. Like "hopefully he ate breakfast and then went to the job interview" vs "he ate breakfast and then went hopefully to the job interview". In the first sentence you have to have that at the beginning of the sentence to show it's modifying the entire sentence including *both* verbs otherwise it changes the meaning of the sentence. It's weird that a prescriptivist would want to nix the newer usage, since it provides the option for a nice, subtle distinction just by changing the word order. If you profess to love language, that's a cool development, not an error!

ain't nothin wrong wit sentential adverbs

damn, I have to agree!