Overseas Pension

DRS1

1957DfurdPensionist said:

DRS1 said:

I think the word you were looking for is cahoots not cohorts.

I think the word I was looking for, I found.  I passed 'Use of English' at age15 well over 50 years ago, as did you I assume? So you know pretty well what I was alluding to without having stated definitively that anyone was less than honest.  Would you have preferred it if I had done so?

The difference between us perhaps is that I realise that the English language not only evolves, with meanings diverging constantly and sometimes quite rapidly, but also, due to its multiple etymological roots, meanings of similarly looking words with apparent wholly different geographical origin can sometimes start to (re-)converge. So such words can be employed as alternates to achieve nuance without resorting to overt declaration of the "correct" alternate, and without losing intent. You choose to highlight "in cohorts with" as mistaken communication, but what is a cohort and what is a cahoot?  You might say one is a group of like minds or of like characteristics or of like environmental experience, and the other perhaps a secret tent of dishonest intent? On that basis, you might question why a bank would ever call itself Cahoot unless it wished to declare itself dishonest? Food for thought?

In the meantime, what's your contribution to the thread topic?

Wow.

I derive my understanding of cohort from reading Simon Scarrow.  It is a unit in the Roman Army.  Maybe its meaning has modified in the last two thousand years.  But it had no place in your post.

And yes I do believe that if you want to call something a spade you should use that word.

But don't worry your distrust and suspicion of the people in question came across loud and clear.