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Yours is not much better. However, to OP: a facetious response quoting literature is quite unkind. While you may feel that 'audit' means something particular,
by d1sxeyes 2y ago
Yours is not much better.
However, to OP: a facetious response quoting literature is quite unkind. While you may feel that 'audit' means something particular, the fact is that it has a couple of definitions and none of them are immediately apparent (to me, a native speaker).
It's also quite prone to being used as a 'false friend' for something who speaks romance languages in which the normal verb for 'listen' is close to the Latin.
Bear in mind that this is the internet, and no-one can be sure whether English is anyone's first language. As an external observer, I can't tell if you are a native English speaker, and I cannot tell whether the person asking the question is a native English speaker.
A better way to approach the question would have been just to give the benefit of the doubt and answer simply and clearly.
(BTW: there's some interesting discussion of your point of view here: https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who-is-the-ultimate-arbiter-of-meaning/ https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who...)