For example, if you say that “feed” isn’t a real word because there is a better way to say “issued someone a fee,” but the real word is “feed” as in “to provide with nourishment,” what would that error in judgment be called?

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    16 months ago

    Do you mean that used-car salesman dialect where they’re “efforting the ask for the spend” and similar embarrassments?