As I keep trying to explain, that girl, I'm not trying to preach or ridicule, and I'm sorry it it comes over like that. I would be very disappointed if I thought I had frightened other potential contributors off.
I am genuinely interested in why people adopt what seem to me to be new or non-standard usages .On 'wishes for x to happen', for example, I wonder whether there is a feeling that 'wishes x to happen' should be restricted to wishes for oneself ('I wish to be hanged') rather than for other people? Is it felt that 'want' would be more appropriate in the case of other people ('I want those grammatical miscreants to be hanged')?
I am not suggesting that my own idiolect (if I am using that word correctly!) is in any way superior to anyone else's. And, incidentally, I have no special claims to expertise in the English language, not having studied it since 'O' level.