Intensive Purposes or Intents and Purposes?

Which do you say? I used to say "intensive purposes". Secret agent amanda though used to ride my ass about it so bad that I switched to intents and purposes. I never really cared who used what, but I am curious to know:

Which phrase do you use?

 

Intensive purposes makes no sense unless you are trying to prove a point regarding some kind of brutal therapy or child rearing which borders on abusive.

Intents and purposes ... final answer

 

i use the incorrect version
at least here, or in non-academic speak

 

In tents of porpoises.

 

Edit: I can't read today. I thought you said you use the correct version.

 

i figured that

its a ease of use type thing for me...i don't care if its wrong, so i use intensive purposes in general speak. if it comes up when i'm writing or speaking more formal, i'll use the correct version

 

For all intents and purposes, "intensive purposes" works for me.

 

I used to think it was intensive purposes as a child. Hard tell to if someone says it wrong though. I also thought Rhodes Scholar was Road Scholar, someone who knew an awful lot about roads.

 

Fuck. I thought it was Road Scholar too. Thought it was a knowledgable traveler.

 

i found this site: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
common errors in english language

 

Great minds think alike, too bad we're not one of them.

 

My mind is great.




Greatly slowed.....

 

In the song Benny and the Jets my husband thought she had "electric boobs" when he was little.

 

Bam.

 

I didn't even know what to say that.

I think you've summed it up well.