Let's list often confused terms

[Fly_Sparge]

One of my favorites is peak and pique.

You have piqued my interest, but my interest has not yet peaked.

[Ignatz]

@Miller

Bit esoteric, but when software company Pixologic created their 3D rendering software, ZBrush, they needed a term for a new kind of pixel. A regular pixel has an X and Y coordinate, plus a color. Pixologic needed to store all that, plus a Z coordinate for depth. And so they invented:

The Pixol.

Say those two terms out loud a few times. Pixel. Pixol. Pixel. Pixol.

You fuckers couldn’t have come up with something just slightly more original than that?

That reminded me of esoteric vs. erotic.

moot vs. mute

[Cub_Mistress]

spayed vs spaded

We had our cat spayed, but when the operation went bad, we spaded a hole in the garden in which to bury her.

[BigT]

@Miller

Bit esoteric, but when software company Pixologic created their 3D rendering software, ZBrush, they needed a term for a new kind of pixel. A regular pixel has an X and Y coordinate, plus a color. Pixologic needed to store all that, plus a Z coordinate for depth. And so they invented:

The Pixol.

Say those two terms out loud a few times. Pixel. Pixol. Pixel. Pixol.

You fuckers couldn’t have come up with something just slightly more original than that?

FYI, the official term is now voxel, which stands for “Volumetric picture element.”

[Suil_Dubh]

@TreacherousCretin

Just the other night I saw someone in a news story, trying to sound reporter-ish, say “…it beggars the question…”

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How very beggardly of them.

extends pinky whilst sipping from tea cup, oh so disdainfully

[pancakes3]

spendthrift?

i’m not sure how often some of these terms are confused in real life. rogue and rouge? esoteric and erotic?