It's deliberate confusion, and it happens on both sides.

Despite apparently deliberate confusion, some points are clear.

This needn't mean mollycoddling, it's about effective expression - and there can still be room for ambiguity, deliberate confusion, etc.

And the deliberate confusion, on television, of news and entertainment has done further damage.

This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels.

The film enjoys its well-timed moments of deliberate confusion, even though audience patience will eventually wear thin.

You are able to appreciate and even invent little mathematical jokes based on a deliberate confusion of terms.

And his criticism is often crippled by his deliberate confusion of the two.

So you wind up with a lot of deliberate confusion.

This deliberate confusion of locations and cultures is expanded on in the show's most telling component, its centerpiece video.