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I've seen "per say" a few times recently...

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MrsMadWriggle · 27/09/2010 19:54

It gives me a distinct shivery feeling a bit like someone dragging their nails down a blackboard.

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tokyonambu · 27/09/2010 20:02

See also "e.t.c."

MrsMadWriggle · 27/09/2010 20:04

Eeek!

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tokyonambu · 27/09/2010 20:13

There's a directory (folder) on Unix and Linux systems called /etc. It's what its name implies: the place that all sorts of miscellaneous system configuration stuff goes.

It's not uncommon to hear whey-faced Unix junkies, few of whom have read a book since Alan Moore stopped doing Watchman, refer to...

...and please, take cover...

Slash Et Cee. Et as in, well, et cetera, Cee as in seething at their ignorance. How can people see the letters "etc" and not realise it's pronounced "et cetera"? What do they learn in schools these days? Well not, to judge from something I was reading today, the difference between ie and eg...

TheProfiteroleThief · 27/09/2010 20:13

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tokyonambu · 27/09/2010 20:20

Presumably by conflation with "in hock to".

Is there anything more pathetic, and yet strangely inducing of an urge to commit murder, than a pretentious Latin tag misspelt?

JaneS · 27/09/2010 20:21

I've just see 'per sae', which is somehow worse, because it has a pseudo-Latin look!

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