A Viscous attack # 2

[Catpiece]

Is it okay for me to start a second thread of the highly entertaining viscous attack? Couldn’t see a sequel and don’t want to step foot on anyone’s toes
edited to add: I’m Cattery but with a name change x

I believe in the example I’ve used, the person had never seen the word written.

@Cathandkin , Barn pottery is a style of pottery, not to be confused with Pottery Barn.

I’ve just read that heavy metal music was the work of satin. Surely that was prog? 🤣

heavy metal music was the work of satin

Oh I see. However, the explanation of the confusion still stands.

I thought it was the work of Santa?

I think that's the problem with most of these. People don't see it written down.
Like the famous one about liking the smell of someone's colon.

@Cathandkin , thanks. It probably needed context. My rustic hand-made bowl isn't bampottery.

@Catpiece , Isn't clique 'cleek'?

@PendantScorner Yes. It’s pronounced cleek

That’s a gem for sure x

It is 'cleek' but in many accents and if said fast, there's not that much difference between 'click' and 'cleek'. Which is how the confusion arises when people don't read. They hear it as 'the office click' and so that's what they write, even though they don't really understand why it would be a click (presumably because they think those people 'click' together really well), and they've never even SEEN the word 'clique'. And, presumably, don't even have a smattering of French.

@Vroomfondleswaistcoat Exactly that. If you don’t read how can you write?

I think that's the problem with much of this. People aren't reading.

Do these people know what they are saying/writing? If they hear a word, aren't they curious about what the word's origins?

Two like click/clique I can think of are 'I'm brassic' and 'enjoy the crack'.
Surely, knowing that they meant skint (boracic lint) and craic helps?

@Cathandkin As I’ve said previously, it’s misspellings from mis-hearings. Plaster it all over social media. Get enough likes with no one correcting you and it reinforces the crap

You see things misspelt so frequently that you become inured.

I think there's a lack of curiosity, @PendantScorner .
It's like "damp squid" for "damp squib". I had to look up what a squib was.

That's very true, and I think that's what's been happening on MN. So many people post the same mistake, it gets reinforced.

They don’t seem curious do they. I like to know that what I’m saying and writing is correct and I’m intrigued by the origin. Then again, I was at school at a very different time. We were voracious readers.

I recently interviewed a young man for a volunteering position. He was a medical student. The last book he read for pleasure was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" when he was 10.

Bampot refers to someone who does daft things.

Some people are proud of never having read a book 😫

@MagpiePi , without the context I can't see why the terms would be confused.

It's possible that "barn pottery" was written as "barmpottery" but the autocarrot was on.

Barmpottery would mean being a barmpot just as fuckwittery means being a fuckwit.

'Barm' is a dialect term for the foam or froth on the top of a fermenting liquid, such as beer. It's the origin of the adjective 'barmy'. So a barmpot is someone who is mad or stupid.

(I turn autocarrot off. I'll make my own mistakes, thanks.)

He actually told you that? 😱