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very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• terminally_offline@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Elusive*, you’ll probably try to correct me and say that you meant “illusive” but that’s not the right use-case for it anyway.

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not pedantry to point out your word choice was so completely wrong. Illusive is descriptive of things that are illusions (a mirage is illusive water); elusive is descriptive of something that is hard to find

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      • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “Correcting” someone in a casual setting when they clearly communicated their ideas in a way that was understood by the majority of the audience without issue is pedantry, or more specifically linguistic prescriptivism. If their meaning was unclear you’d ask what they meant to say, when you tell someone what they meant to say you obviously understood them and are just being pedantic.

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    • terminally_offline@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ignoramus will be an ignoramus.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        ignore anus? man i try to

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• maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  *elusive

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