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Originally Posted by dd74
The term is "moot point."
No debatable value (moot point) vs. silent, quieted, quiet, noiseless (mute). Hard to confuse one for the other.
Meanwhile...
"Hear?" "Mute?" An oxymoron for more "intensive purposes?"
Or is it intents and purposes?
Oxymoron or just moron?
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I gave up on trying to point out these types of errors a long time ago. Unfortunately, most people have stopped reading anything more challenging than a
People magazine. They hear words being used; however, they haven't seen the word spelled.
That is how we get the prevalent misuse of:
moot and mute
verses and versus
conscious and conscience
intents and intense
brake and break
disk and disc
insure and ensure
etc....you get the idea!