Aubrey Carter

Exactly.

And you could use those constructions as well for these bigger things.

But we wouldn't say like, I wish for a bowl of ice cream, unless we're talking to a genie.

We just don't use that in daily conversations to say smaller things that we want.

Yeah, it's a really different kind of register going on here, a set of vocabulary words that signal the tone of the gravity of the conversation, right?

is one of those big hopes, those big wishes.

It's perfect for that, right?

I can see maybe this, even if that's a native speaker, they hear this construction and they're thinking, oh, that sounds formal, but actually that's the perfect context to use that.

Yeah, it might be.

And it's interesting because this was Elizabeth's sort of second look.

Okay, should I use this instead?

I would like for my son to be an upstanding member of the community.

Also, excellent.

Both of those work perfectly because these are both...

Big wish I would like for my son to be a good person.

It means the same as I wish for my son to be a good person, right?

So those are both perfect, interchangeable.

But it's interesting because this is also for big wishful thoughts, but can be for sort of smaller things, but that would still be meaningful in some way.

Or I would like for us to move forward.

That could be about a project at work or a contract or a personal matter.