As a bostonian I'd mention that facetious has a gained meaning in that area of "misleading with malintent" I believe this meaning is pretty wide spread over the east coast in general but it might also be an artifact of word collision due to the local accent.
The pronunciation can be quite close
/fækˈtɪʃəs/
/fəˈsiːʃəs/
Over in the midwest, I thought that simply was its meaning.
Re:Why we're ending support for MySQL
by Noumenon72 on Thursday July 04, 2019 @01:46PM
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Thanks for the clear statement of the distinction! I only knew "facetious" (and always with the sense you state), so my vocabulary is bigger now.
I believe from context you meant "factitious":
> factitious -- artificially created or developed.
Vs.
> facetious -- treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
In general a well argued post. This easy to make typo doesn't detract from that.