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Today's peeve is people who, probably as an extension of fancy plurals such as "indices" from "index", pronounce "processes" as "process-seas."

Date: 2008-08-08 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dagbrown.livejournal.com
When I was taking Linear Algebra For Little Kiddies back in university, I was driven nuts by lusers who backformed "matrices" to "matriceeeeee".

Date: 2008-08-08 01:01 am (UTC)
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My linear algebra professor was Austrian. We spent an entire semester learning about mattresses.

The worst, though, was the professor who distinguished between binary functions and urinary functions.

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