with respect, "Imposter" is STILL the wrong spelling. Citation:

"Both impostor and imposter mean a person who deceives others by pretending to be someone else, but impostor is the more traditional spelling. 'Imposter' is a common alternative spelling that has been used for centuries and is widely accepted."

The reason this happened in a nutshell is The Internet. We got a blend. And that's OK. Language can evolve. It should evolve.

BUT IT'S FUCKING "IMPOSTOR" FOR THE RECORD. And yes, I will die on this hill because who wants to live forever, anyway, unless you're Peter Theil.. and and you see where that goes. Blood boys.

@codinghorror Remember: If someone rolls into town and pretends to be the new priest, you'd better make good gorram sure they're not an IMPASTOR.

@codinghorror
So Imposter is an Impostor?

SCNR

@codinghorror i can accept that it's spelled impostor if you can accept that it's spelled amogus

@kepeken these things are complete unrelated. ALso stop fucking adding U to words for no reasons, you animals. And it is ALUMINUM.

@codinghorror now I'm having imposter syndrome about my social media posts.

@codinghorror impasteur

@acdw now this is a letter change I can get behind

@codinghorror
It sure is. People doing things ends in "or" - actor, advisor, commentator, operator, impostor...

@codinghorror I missed the opportunity to make it a joke like when the milk is bad before its sell by date

@acdw "can you taste this milk? I think it's bad."

@codinghorror wiktionary quotes a 2017 CNN piece to justify "imposter"... 🤷

@fasterthanlime it's Ok for language to evolve, but IMPOSTOR always was, and is, the correct one.

@codinghorror are you saying that... Imposter... Is an impostor word?

@saricchiella no, "imposter" means to put someone in a poster.

@codinghorror but it's trying to deceive us pretending to be someone (some word?) else!

@saricchiella no deception, just people being unable to read. Maybe they're dyslexic?

@codinghorror for what it’s worth, in Portuguese is also impostor

@codinghorror you know so much about this that it’s making me feel like an impostor

@codinghorror your rite

@codinghorror Thank. You.

@codinghorror You could say that the word "imposter" is an impostor of the correct term, "impostor".

@codinghorror Ever read the book Word by Word? It's a fascinating read about just this kind of thing! One of my favorite books 😄

https://bookshop.org/p/books/word-by-word-the-secret-life-of-dictionaries-kory-stamper/a456617df041a7b3

#books

@codinghorror discovering the dictionary is around to list definitions of words because that's how people use the words and not because the dictionary is the authority on what a word means definitely changed my outlook on words and meaning.

My hill is envious and jealous.

@codinghorror Can you do "its" vs. "it's" next?

@antiphase (head explodes), but.. I do own a poster version of this.. https://www.angryflower.com/247.html

@antiphase
@codinghorror youre a genius. 😁

@codinghorror @antiphase maybe you need another one? https://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe

@codinghorror
Bob is the hero we need. The real hero the 90s gave us.
@antiphase

@codinghorror ...did you mean Peter Thiel? 🧌

@codinghorror
What a minuscule thing to get worked up about.

@codinghorror am I even good enough to write that word?

@codinghorror I remember a time where google would have shown frequency over years for such questions ... now it only offers a AI-generated blurp suggesting that it one might have been popular in Australia ...

Typically the kind of questions I'd look up on English.stackexchange.com, btw ;)

@codinghorror @antiphase There's a comic specifically for "its" vs. "it's", if you haven't seen it.

@PypeBros 👏💛

@Gottox not really

@Infrapink I've never met a hill I wouldn't enjoy dying on

@codinghorror
Fair enough.

Might I also suggest you defend the hill against those who spell it miniscule?

@Infrapink I AM ON IT

@nils_andresen @antiphase well
DUH