>>SET RANT ON
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>>How come, practically overnight, all "de Yoot" have started using the present continuous fore the verb "to love"? To my mind there's no need to ever use this tense and it shouldn't BE used. For example:
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>>Radio DJs: - "I'm lovin' the new single by ..."
>>TV hosts: - "I'm lovin't the way he paints that wall"
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>>It's all I can do to stop myself smashing the offending medium.
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>>Can anyone cite an example where "I'm loving ..." is apposite?
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>>I blame that blight of my surname, McDonalds, and their "der-der der der der ... I'm lovin' it" adverts. It was fine before that.
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>>SET RANT OFF
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>Points to you, I had to look up 'apposite' and learned a new word today.
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>Blame it on the American South and our 'lazy mouth', as I'm assuming that your issue is with the dropped 'g'...but I could be wrong on that.
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>If your issue is with the use of the phrase itself, I look on it as an extension of the "I'm liking..." as in "I'm liking what you did with this room" or "I'm liking what you did with the spices in this recipe" which I'm not particularly fond of myself, but I've learned to ignore it as I'm surrounded by many, MANY products of the American school systems so "I'm likin'" or "I'm lovin'" is one of the least offending phrases I hear on a daily basis.

OOOH! I bet you get a message now about "I'm liking...".