[JasonFruit]

('Infer' is a perfectly good verb; you don't have to make one out of 'inference'. But sometimes it's easy to disremembrance things like that on HN.)

[lisper]

I believe lispm is not a native English speaker. His website TLD is .de.

[JasonFruit]

Yes, I see. Doesn't mean he or she might not rather be correct, however.

[lisper]

True that.

[lispm]

Thanks, didn't remember that.

[mercer]

It's an easy mistake to make. Incidentally, "infer", for some reason, is a word I find unusually pleasing.

EDIT: as a non-native speaker I distinctly remember first reading the word and happily using it ever since, when appropriate.

[vram22]

And a similar possibly wrong usage is "conference" when used as a verb, maybe, since "confer" is probably okay. But "conference" seems to have become accepted, I've heard it a bit. There's this trend (from many years, not just recent) to make nouns into verbs too, e.g. "Skype me". The "confer" form as a verb probably sounds archaic to many, since it's not commonly heard or read (AFAIK).

[JasonFruit]

Perfectly fair — I'm sure you're not the first to inference something. And yes, 'infer' is an interesting word, especially when you bring in Latin.