Other favourites of mine include 'wala' when a particularly stupid person thinks they're saying voilą and 'per say' when they mean 'per se'.
I don't know of anyone who would fuck that last one up, do you, Mary؟
There are some I do on purpose to bait technical arguments, but only the English based ones. 2 of note:
"Intensive purposes"
"beckon call" (also beckoned call)
However, I try not to fuck with cross-language ones like when latin-based languages enter English dialects. Nobody would get it I feel. Wasn't it you that said per say? I remember it recently and I feel like I participated... can't recall.
Did anyone get the emo <---> immo ?
... anyone?
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You said it and Darthy picked you up on it, which was quite startling in and of itself because of his emulation aspirations.
I was fairly sure at the time it was a mistake rather than a pseudo-error.
Also, I think you have to be pretty skilful about it, at least initially. You couldn't just do it to a new audience.
They have to be pre-aware of your non-idiot status - alternatively you could just not care about what people think and do it anyhow.
But we all care, really.
Exactly.
A perfectly framed post which conveys exactly its intended meaning doesn't detract one iota from the content - and that is precisely the reason I aim to present such posts to my readers.
Ironic that you should be the one to point this out, Dave, since you seem to have no truck with the concept.
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