I'm not saying that different has to be ignorant. But it can be. Saying "albeit" instead of "but," "though" or "although" is not only highly pretentious but is also ignorant. Same with "prior to," which is equally pretentious and which is easily replaced every time with "before." I can't be doing with idiots writing in English who interpose the word "seisiun" for "session." They're just trying, and failing, to be clever and exclusive. It's a bloody session fer chrissake, unless you're writing in Irish. The misuse of "ironic" on Mudcat is frequent and appalling. "Comprised of" is bloody awful. "Acquiesce to" is just horrible. And if you can't pronounce it as a word, such as NATO or Aids, it isn't a bloody acronym. BBC is not an acronym. And what about horrors such as "ie, "e.t.c.", "ect", and "eg"?

I could easily go on ad nauseum.

Shit.

Innit.