Leecher sounds better to me. bleed = bleeder, leech = leecher.
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I don't even know what that means :P
But assuming there isn't just context I'm missing, (and ignoring specialized usage within certain scholastic fields or publications) you use single quotes for quotations within quotations [eg, "And then they said 'no'."], for paraphrased quotations, or for bracketing indirect speech (such as expressing a fictional character's thoughts [eg 'Ah,' she thought 'I've been told no again..' ]).
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But leecher is more easily misread as lecher for unintended hilarity...
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Hahahaha, can't get bored making these
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...Says the man who makes up words without realizing it? :D
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The difference is such: Gifs are best served smoothly, Jifs are best served extra crunchy.
True Fact.
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I hate extra crunchy. Peanut butter should be smooth. It's butter. Why would you want crunchy butter? Makes no sense.
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The point I was making is that Jif makes decent extra crunchy peanut butter, but their creamy isn't especially notable in quality. Your preferences and experiences may differ. :P
And what can I say? I'm all about things being extra nutty.
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Last time I completely succeeded at making me confused about this :D I use it a "gif," mostly because in hungarian we have a spelling that's way closer for pronunciation than english is, the vast majority of words should be said as written, and g's sound is the hard g.
Usually the reasoning is that g stands for graphical. But in CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) I stands for intelligence, and yet in the short form it's spelled as a letter, and not as the first sound of the second word. Without a joke: what now? Are there different rules, or it will just... happen somehow?
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Hate to break it to you but language is made up and words don't matter.
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life is body and consciousness, and a lot of people think it matters.
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I wish people would stop using this vile term on a giveaway site altogether.
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It's not a giveaway site, it's a random trading site.
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Whatever. Leecher is fine. Not a nice term to use, but it's a deliberate, commonly used spelling so it's part of the language, not a mistake.
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Why is everyone always so angry at lychees?...
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I concur.
I think these redundant English words are mostly spawned in USA, where the populous apparently doesn't understand etymology. They seem to like making up long words, or even better, a series of words that can then be abbreviated with a capitalised acronym, to make ideas seem more intimidating and complex, particularly in technical industries. When I worked in the oil and gas industry, I was surprised to find that it is still largely driven by the American wildcatter spirit, with terrible safety practices and engineering standards, and rife with ridiculous names. The first acronym I had to become familiar with was F.P.S.O., which is the name for a type of process plant built onto the deck of a converted oil cargo carrier (tanker/ship). Breaking it down, F.P.S.O. (actually written without the punctuation but pronounced with it!) stands for Floating Production, Storage and Offloading...No, that's it, used up all the letters but forgot to include a noun, which is rather critical for a name. Depending on who you talk to, it should have Facility or Vessel as the key part of the name, but it doesn't. Scrutinising it further, we find that fully 75% of the name is redundant. You don't need to specify that a vessel is Floating, because if a ship is underwater, something has gone terribly wrong. So, it's a Production, Storage and Offloading Vessel. Well, it is only a storage vessel in as far as the oil, gas, sand and water don't immediately spill overboard after processing. It is a converted cargo carrier, so it has less oil storage than the similar vessels remaining in cargo service, which are regarded as having a transport, rather than a storage function. Likewise, the offloading function of a production vessel is implicit in its purpose, because otherwise, it would be making a product with no possible utility except within the production facility itself.
There were so many of these that it stopped being funny. They even make new ones up on a job by job basis. From what I can tell, it serves to protect the mediocre in a contrived niche if you can convince others that your area of expertise is too complex to bother worrying about, so they should just throw lots of money at you. They obviously took lessons from the success of the IT industry over the last 25 years.
One of my favourites was the MOF (also written without punctuation but unlike FPSO, pronounced as an acronym not a capitalisation), or Materials Offloading Facility. After figuring out what they were talking about, I asked if it was called a MOF because somebody couldn't spell wharf. They tried to convince me that it wasn't a wharf until I pointed out that the government document granting approval for this infrastructure referred to it and licenced it as a wharf.
Then there's the subsea engineering section. They like to think that they are really special and had been demanding unique names for all their equipment in the engineering equipment library that I was asked to sort out. They got upset when I reclassified their "Subsea Electrical Umbilical" as a "Cable - Power" and tried to claim that it wasn't a power cable because it was special and had armour on it and went under water. I pointed out that number of cores, insulation, armour, terminations, capacity rating, etc. are all properties of the cable described in its metadata.
There also seems to be a similar culture in American outside of industry. One of my favourite examples, typically heard in sports commentary is "aggressiveness". If you question it, they will argue that they mean something other than aggression but they can't actually articulate their argument because that it exactly what they mean.
Hence the idiotic leech -> leeching -> leecher logic.
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All of you have way to much time on your hands :-P - shouldn't you all be playing games, or giving them away instead :)
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