If the author is reading this, per se means by itself, on its own. I'm not reading per say in its stead for the first time today. It shouldn't be surprising th

If the author is reading this, per se means by itself, on its own. I'm not reading per say in its stead for the first time today. It shouldn't be surprising that many misheard words survived in a time when there was no widespread frequent exchange of written language and no writing standards or before that, when hardly anyone could even read. I feel this severely complicated our languages. This is slightly on topic as well, because Natural Language processing has to deal with that now. going one step further with the nitpicking, just because I am at it, the per-say (or indeed, per se) is only a filler in that sentence, like really or very often are, really though.