Category talk:English words affected by confusion
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This category sounds useful, but necessarily POV driven. Whether a word is affected by confusion or not is purely in the eye of the beholder. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:36, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
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Badly named, and because " Whether a word is affected by confusion or not is purely in the eye of the beholder" (cf. talk page). --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- Delete. Silly pet project by an editor who has been gone for 7 years. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 23:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
- I can see merit in having a hidden maintenance-type category or an Appendix to help bring attention to the way our contributors attempt to help language learners and others with this kind of thing. The name is pretty bad.
- We seem to find a great fascination with eggcorns, mondegreens, etc. Arguably the terms in this category are of greater importance to language learners and do not have the advantage of having a humorous (and autological) name to make it easy to find them. DCDuring (talk) 00:01, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- Delete Don’t see any confusions there. The whole English language is a confusion. Palaestrator verborum sis loquier 🗣 15:10, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
- Delete. This category confuses me. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
- RFD failed. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:54, 18 March 2018 (UTC)