Where do you see a need? Reply to this thread by beginning with: It would be greatly appreciated if.... I'll start. It would be greatly appreciated if drive-through places (McDonald's, Wendy's, Tim Horton's, etc.) got the orders right.
It would be greatly appreciated if summer would actually summer. It was only 13°C today in the middle of July!
Corollary: But they never do. (You want them to get your order right? What effrontery!) </sarcasm> It would be greatly appreciated if the mini ice-age we're experiencing here in southern Australia would break a bit. We've had temperatures ranging from 11 to 14°C for the past two weeks -- and next week looks about the same, except colder and rainier. (Grumble, moan, complain)
It would be greatly appreciated if . . . such sentences would begin more actively, such as "I would greatly appreciate it if . . ." But maybe that's just me being persnickety.
... and now we've gone meta. It would be greatly appreciated if whoever decided to change the names of those "social media" companies from Facebook to Meta, and from Twitter to X, didn't seem to think that we're all a bunch of dopes. It's the same BS, just with a different name. I know Shakespeare wrote "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", but that doesn't apply here!
