To not understand ect?

[GretaGip]

It just doesn't make sense.

I'm baffled.

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

to whoever appreciated my offering earlier, thank you,
life can be dark and joyless, ect ect ect

@Ilovemyshed
It's not ECT, it's ETC.

Short for Et Cetera. Latin translation "et" = "and", "cetera" = "the rest".

Pronounciation: Ett Set Erra

Pretty sure the OP knows this. That's why she posted.

Do you always explain the obvious?

My DS is very dyslexic, but even he knows it's 'etc'! In fact he gets really annoyed that people use dyslexia as an excuse for not knowing 'easy to learn' acronyms! (But he's very determined he's right, so...)

Same people who say “expresso” 🤮🤮🤮

Yup same, no idea how I thought it was spelt.

Given that so many people on this thread seem to not understand it, yes.

so you care a lot and could see yourself caring less? 😂

came on here expecting a thread about electroconvulsive therapy ...

disappointed...

I wrote ect as a child/early teen. I pronounce it correctly but thought the t in the abbreviation was the t in cetera rather than the t in et.

People who read mostly in one language will learn to predict that letters will likely appear in particular combinations and orders. This makes their reading more efficient.

They will therefore tend to miss the fact that letters are grouped in a less familiar order, and to write them in an order more likely to be seen in their native language.

Hence ect.

The fact that ect would indeed be a reasonable abbreviation of et cetera probably doesn't help.

Why on earth wouldn't people use gonna on a chat forum?

Here is a great discussion of the issue, OP - why people say excetera and expresso, and how F Scott Fitzgerald used ect in his correspondence

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-matters-podcast/episode-88-the-unexplainable-popularity-of-inexplicable-and-ect-for-etc

Remember, half the population are below average intelligence

'Gonna' is for formal usage.

It's all 'Imma' I'm seeing in my correspondence these days.

(Most interesting)

This statement betrays a really poor understanding of statistics. The vast majority of people are clustered around the mean, and a few IQ points has no discernable impact on intelligence.

Really it's more like two thirds of the population have average intelligence, one sixth greater than average and one sixth less than average.

Do you mean contraction rather than constriction? Poor grammar, OP, tch tch.

My absolute favourite thing about this thread are the posters explaining OPs point as if OP doesn't already get it...

I agree with you but nothing is worse than Chester draws for sale on FB marketplace 😁

Loose for lose baffles me too. It's a completely different pronunciation and the people using it must know the worse loose as in my belt is loose so how do they think that is spelt if they use loose for lose? And when they have lost something why haven't they loost it?

I think what is shows is that people who know perfectly well what’s correct sometimes fuck about and deliberately get things wrong - like “ect” - just for fun. See “flat earthers” for more.

I sort of group "ect" with "Micheal" - it seems more likely that you get c-h-e-a in a sequence rather than the correct c-h-a-e so people default to what they think they know.

Emily Brewster: There are no words in either French or English that begin with E-T, except for et cetera.

Have I misunderstood this, or is it a joke/sarcasm?

Etch, etymology, ether, ethos...

Bad transcript - what she says in the recording is that there are no words beginning with ets (i.e. the sound of the first three letters in et cetera).

I suppose the transcriber's error supports her point!

Ah ok. I learned ect from my dad and used it at school where I am fairly sure teachers used it too and certainly never corrected me. (Also used / read etcétera.) When I went to England to study at uni. I was surprised to learn that English said etc.

Etc.
You could have just googled this.

Googled what? Why people get it wrong?