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Originally Posted by Reiwa
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You are conflating efficacy with utility, dingus.
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Conflating efficacy and utility would imply that is it both effective and utilitarian. Since you are combining the two [QUOTE]
LOL I've never seen someone use it in the " Confuse " sense. I had to find an example of that.
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“Conflate” comes from the Latin conflare, “to blow together, stir up, raise, accomplish; also to melt together, melt down (metals),” The Oxford English Dictionary says.
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Merriam-Webster ;That dictionary’s definition of “conflate” is “to bring together” (as in “fuse”) and “confuse,” or “to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole.”
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https://archives.cjr.org/language_co...ner_020915.php
I can only really find one example of it being used in that sense. ya dingus.