We're not fat because we know where to draw the line. Roast parsnips and potatoes are divine. Merry Christmas.
People who say "bring" when they clearly mean "take" irks me. Skyrim is especially guilty of this. Example: Farengar gives me some frost salts he wants given to Arcadia and asks me if I can "bring them to her". My reply is no, I can't bring them to her. I can take them to her, that's possible, but I can 't bring them to her. If however he was stood in Arcadia's shop and he called me on my phone and asked if I could bring them to her that would make sense, because he's stood where he wants me to bring them, but being in one place and asking someone to to bring something away from that place is idiotic, and it irks me. I also don't like it when people walk into a deli and say "Can I get X menu item?". No you can't get it. It can be gotten for you, or you can have it, but you can't get it because the person behind the counter has to get it for you. What you said is just wrong.
When you go to McDonalds, do you say "may I ask you to facilitate a transaction for a big mac and fries?". I hope so.
Nope. I just say it correctly. People ask "Can I get..." and the right answer to their question is no, so it's a stupid way of asking for things.
Or you can just say get like 99% of the population. I bet arma celebrated the new millennium in 2001.
Why would I purposefully be wrong just because loads of other people are wrong too? For the record I say "Can I have" or "I'd like", you know, speaking English correctly. It just peeves me when enough people are wrong everyone either doesn't care or doesn't realise they're wrong and people start thinking its right, which it isn't, it wrong, fact.
Sounds like you're getting a bit uptight about it all. I don't think it really matters at all; people know what it means so who gives a toss?
Am I now? Do you have a valid reason for making such a claim? Can "Can" is one of the most commonly used modal verbs in English. It can be used to express ability or opportunity, to request or offer permission, and to show possibility or impossibility. Saying "can I have" is a perfectly cromulent way of asking for something, unlike saying "can I get" which is not a correct way of asking for something unless you are actually going to be doing the getting yourself, which you're not when in a deli, the food is gotten for you making the statement incorrect, ergo everyone is wrong and I am right case closed.
The last two are only recent definitions, caused by the intermingling usages of the yoof of today mixing up their cans/mays.