Similes

[Molly]

[Yankee]

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And the moral of M's story is:

There are typos and misspellings galore in the real world -- unless M. pronounces them to be examples of intentional usage, of course.

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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Torsten]

I agree with Amy, it's obvious that Ralf made just a typo rather than a 'usage blunder'. No big deal. By the way, the term 'usage blunder' doesn't seem to be very popular.
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[Ralf]

Of course. We ourselves are not perfect, so wouldn't we -- by knowing ourselves -- by default assume people are as imperfect as we believe ourselves to be?
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[prezbucky]

TD

...that's because "blunder" is close to "blender" -- a small mistake turns it into "usage blender", and people don't want any part of that. hehe

[Yankee]

On the other hand, maybe some would like the usage blander.
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ESL teacher, translator, and a native speaker of American English

[Molly]

[Molly]

The native speaker was a usage blinder.

[Yankee]

[prezbucky]

lol @ "usage blander" and "usage blinder"

would this fly -- "usage blonder"?

hehe

funny -- you can insert any of the five vowels into "bl_nder".

[Molly]

[lost_soul]

[prezbucky]

Hey, Molly, what's wrong with a blonder entendre (the Southern way: on-TON-der)?

hehe