@georgetakei As it is the number 1 rule of language is that I ALONE DECIDE what's correct and what's not, based on my value judgements, I declare that the best way to speak is to do it exactly how the people I like do it.

And those people I don't like?? They're language is hands-down the worst!

I'm not a linguist, and I've never listened to anything they have to say, but I have enough expertise in yapping that I know never to start a sentence with 'and', ffs.

Hey, wait a minute-