It seems the epidemic runs unchecked and I, for one, am aghast. The latest glaring and widespread misuse has to do with forbidding. Watch any dreadful television show and you will hear someone forbidding someone else 'from' doing something. Seriously, Actor/Actress #1 says to Actor /Actress #2 "I forbid you from doing that".
If that sort of hideous breakdown in language usage is not enough to give a person instant apoplexia, I don't know what is. Did I say 'seriously' yet? It may bear repeating.
For the purposes of clarification, I have to say that one forbids someone to do something or go somewhere. In the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo, ay yi yi yi yi.
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