Reply #80: I find that formulation totally repulsive.

[BurtWorm]

I learned the rule I stated in the OP from a very early age. When I hear someone saying "people that," it's like fingers on a chalboard.

I'm happy for you if you can take every utterance by other speakers of English as equal and perfectly all right. That means everything that came out of Bush's mouth, for example, was fine with you. Nukyular is as smooth in your ear as nuclear. Misunderestimated is just as dandy as underestimated. It's all the same, just the bubbling crude out of which English is made. Good for you. I'm not made like that.