[Carry_Okie]

Errors in this forum may be endemic but I have seen no evidence they are epidemic. LOL

Sigh.

en·dem·ic (n-dmk)

adj.

1. Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people: diseases endemic to the tropics. See Synonyms at native.

Are you saying that juvenile grammar errors are particular to FR?

2. Ecology Native to or confined to a certain region.

No, childish grammar errors neither originate from nor are they particular to FR. Public education, a system that exists in antipathy to the preponderance of preferences expressed on this forum and is very possibly fatal to the entire nation, is infecting FR from the outside (an epidemic, from the Greek prefix epi-, indicating a surface). I am functioning as an antibody.

[ladyjane]

sigh - do I really have to explain the difference?

Epidemic describes diseases and conditions that spread rapidly and extensively by infection and affect many people at the same time.

Endemic, OTOH, means prevalent in a particular area or among a people, maybe Freepers.

There is no evidence that mis-spellitis is spreading rapidly by infection. It may be endemic and it is certainly prevalent.