Originally Posted by
canklecat
Habit. Parroting what people see "experts" write or say. Misinterpreting words that seem to mean one thing but actually mean another. Same reason people write less than when they mean fewer, which instead of that, and don't understand that neoliberalism is an economic philosophy promoting free market capitalism, not a socialistic anti-market political philosophy, or that catalogs aren't made of cats.
Yes they are! That's why one hardware chain here now publishes a dogalogue. For petist equality and all that.
Entirely off topic. Sorry.
(The dogalogue part is true, by the way).