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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Here is my contribution to the degeneration of the English language.
Spotted on that great bastion of spelling excellence, Slashdot:
“I see this as something that targets the PS2’s huge instal base and could cost a fraction of a whole next-gen system (Rev), but offer similar enough experience to disway people from going out and getting the Revolution. It doesn’t have to be better”
Link to comment:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?s … d=14811570
Forgot to do the obligatory Google search before posting, but after doing so, this is clearly a widespread phenomenon:
http://www.google.com/search?q=disway+p … &hl=en&lr=
-mike
Last edited by ixionwastaken (2006-02-27 17:09:28)
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“Disway” for “dissuade” (500+ hits) is part of a relatively large family. There’s also “dissuage” (200+), “persuage” for “persuade” (500+), and “assuade” for “assuage” (500+).
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