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Abuse of language

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Abuse of language may refer to:

  • Abuse of terminology, in mathematics, a use of terminology in a way that is not formally correct but that simplifies exposition or suggests the correct intuition
  • Misnomer, a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue
  • Barbarism (linguistics), use of non-standard language forms