To not understand ect?

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It just doesn't make sense.

I'm baffled.

^How^ are people pronouncing it to think this makes sense?

I understood the question. I still don't believe you are baffled that some people get Ec from Et.
So that's good
Hth🖕

Baffling, but not as baffling at the frequent use of ‘que’ I see on here for ‘queue’ or even ‘cue’.

That’s not even a word (said à la Monica)! Unless you’re meaning qué, which bears no similarity in pronunciation or meaning to queue. 🥴

I think it’s more likely to show how much a person reads rather than education level.

I’m no expert but prepare lots of papers for work and read a lot so appropriate language and grammar is necessary. I don’t have a degree and don’t recall learning very much grammar at all even at GCSE and A-Level.

My knowledge comes from a lot of reading I think.

I think it’s more likely to show how much a person reads rather than education level
I don't disagree @Merryoldgoat but I would say that the two are fairly closely correlated.

I hope you let them know. What a shit show.

Oh, I agree. Unless what's written is truly unintelligible I generally understand it but I just can't help being ridiculously annoyed by it!

My daughter bought me a mug baring bearing the phrase "I'm silently correcting your grammar" 😬

Since the Internet I have taught myself not to comment on ephemeral errors in forums or emails. Before that and elsewhere I point out mistakes if I think corrections would be welcome. Right and polite are not always close!

Electro convulsive therapy

You need to bare with all the non-pedants on here.

pedantry is a really unattractive trait!

I beg to differ!

That mug was my secret Santa gift at work 😂

Your username has just cracked me up!

@tumtitum yes I was expecting an interesting discussion on the theories about how ECT works!

That would have been interesting.

No, we don't use ect in Spain. We use etc or etcétera.

I see posters that use ‘gonna’ in their posts on here. Actually written down.

Etcetera. The first 3 letters are etc hence that’s what it gets shortened to. What’s confusing about that? It’s not ect..

And?
Are you suggesting using it wasn't a stylistic choice, but a mistake?

ECT.

I roared with laughter when my daughter gave me mine, she knows me so well! Trouble is though I don't always do it silently 😂

The people who use that derivative are not educated enough to know the correct contraction.
You however are educated enough but just choose to be mean about others lack.

I pronounce it wrong but spell it correctly

My DD is an English academic and she told me that 'aks' is part of a dialect of older English. 'Ask' is the newfangled gibberish apparently.

Molesworth fans.

It's not a typo, people really think that's what the abbreviation is, it's all over the internet

Either they were never taught the correct thing or they were and didn't learn it for whatever reason

No it's etc. in France too. It's etc. everywhere in the world because as you've pointed out, it's the abbreviation of 'et cetera', or 'et caetera'.

Anyone half-sane understands ect to mean etc, 'eksetra' to mean etc.
Etc, etc,.etc.