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This is so tempting for me to do hahahaha
What is the Science Behind Using Latin Abbreviations Incorrectly on Purpose?
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Wait, it's still Thursday here 
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Wait ... what? You've been ON your meds all this time?davenn said:
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phinds said:
hahahaha ... does that infer I need to up the dose ??
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Greg Bernhardt said:Wait, it's still Thursday here
that was "so yesterday"
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It's Friday here. 
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You need to look up infer and imply, but yesdavenn said:hahahaha ... does that infer I need to up the dose ??
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hmmmm...phinds said:You need to look up infer and imply, but yes
Yesterday, I couldn't decide between i.e. and e.g., so I used both; "...id est, exempli gratia: Everyone is either broke, or going broke. And when you're broke, you can't fix ****. And when you can't fix ****, **** stays broke. hmmmm... Someone needs to fix this ****! Kapeesh"?
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You have implied that you find those Latin abbreviation confusing and from that I infer that you don't use them very often.OmCheeto said:
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Correct!phinds said:
But when I do use them, I generally use them incorrectly, on purpose.