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Why do people say 'infraction'? How pompous and self-important... everyone else just issues warnings.
 
It just appears that way to you because you're a northern pleb.
I'm neither northern nor a pleb... although sometimes I think both would be an advantage.
"Infraction" is a word never used in real life, only by police officers and so on. Like "proceeding".
 
Calling the warning message an infraction is not actually correct. The infraction is the offence committed.
 
You receive the message with an actual offence and some points. I keep getting them.

For Example
  • 8th July 2010 11:37
    amoderatorswhodrinksredbull

    Expired: I apologise about...
    Insulted Other Member(s)

Yes, but you commit an infraction and receive a message. If the forum software calls the message an infraction then it's subverting the English language.
 
It's not unheard of for infraction of the scaphoid bone to result in bone infarction, apparently.

I'm glad I'm not a doctor.
 

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