#hypercorrection

i am using the vocab off the top of my head; this can be inaccurate

typeface - a series of alphanumerical symbols for design and digital writing

ABC Favorit is the default typeface for tumblr

font - a subtype* of a typeface

e.g. ABC Favorit Italic and ABC Favorit Bold are 2 different fonts, but the same typeface

hypercorrection - since english is subjective, not objective, the word 'font' has and still is being used as the word 'typeface'

hypercorrections are when words change because many people started to say the etymollogically wrong word

e.g. octopi is the grammatically wrong plu. for octopus, as it should be octopuses or octopodes

octopi has been used instead of octopuses or octopodes because people started to say octopi and it catched on

sorry if this sounded confusing

I don’t think I had that. Because I remember strongly getting mad at and correcting a girl in preschool over her grammar and at myc ousin for not understanding figures of speech when I was like 3 or 4.

Another girl had pushed her down and she exclaimed: “Him pushed me!”

I was like no: “SHE pushed you. Not Him. It would be He not him” It was big deal to me. Like a BIG deal. 

Which is rich considering I called lawnmowers “mowerlawns” and computers “putercoms” against my brain’s will

Is it "you and me" or "you and I"? Does "octopus" pluralize as "octopuses", "octopi" or "octopodes? If you're ordering a nice bottle of champagne, how do you say Moët? And what does that say about you?

People care a lot about talking "correctly" -- sometimes so much that we over-apply things we've been corrected on even in contexts where they didn't originally apply, a phenomenon known as hypercorrection.

Hypercorrection and what we even think of as "correct" or "fancy" isn't just about the rules of grammar: it can also tell us a lot about the rules of society.  

“...it's also the result of an arm's race between...”

An interfinity question is a question that has both an infinite number of answers and no answer at all. Interfinity allows opposites to coexist. It can be said that the “an interfinity question is always more interesting than its response” and that the “response to an interfinity question is always more interesting that the question itself.”

In written conversation the interfinity mark* indicates that the question should be understood on a secondary level in which interrogative and infinite expressions are combined. The interfinity mark differs from the short-lived percontation point, invented in the late sixteenth century to indicate rhetorical questions, in that it denotes ever-lasting and ever-occurring questions: Is there life beyond planet Earth? Does god exist? Am I awake or am I dreaming? Is there life after death? What is the meaning of life? Was this article helpful to you? Where do you find your inspiration? What is your dream project? What are you unrealized projects? Are you happy? But why?

In a typographic sense the interfinity mark can be described as an interrogative punctuation mark formed by superimposing a vertical infinity mark (∞) with a question mark (?).