In your title, you correctly used "to confuse something with something else", but in your examples you changed "with" to "for". Your example sentences are, consequently, incorrect.

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Hi,
Sometimes, one may want to say that we sometimes give importance to price, when we should give it to value.
Is "We confuse value for price" the same as "We confuse price for value"? Does the order matter?
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In your title, you correctly used "to confuse something with something else", but in your examples you changed "with" to "for". Your example sentences are, consequently, incorrect.
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Sorry for my absent-mindedness; I confused "confuse" with "mistake." [Is "I confused 'mistake' with 'confuse' different?]
Is "We confuse value with price" the same as "We confuse price with value"? Does the order matter?
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Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Can't a guy make an inattentive spelling mistake without much embarrassment?
I didn't mean to cut in line; I just saw many newer questions getting answered and mine fading into oblivion.
Take your time and take it easy.![]()
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To me they mean different things.
'We confuse price with value' means we think that expensive products are of high value.
'We confuse value with price' means we think that products of high value are expensive.
Yes, generally the idea that is already in mind comes first:
A: When you're at an Italian restaurant, remember to say "Gracias"
B: No, you're confusing Italian with Spanish.
A: This is a cat because it's got four legs, a tail, and it barks.
B: You're confusing cats with dogs.
Thanks, folks.
Raymott, are you sure?
So concerning the example above, I should say, "We confuse price with value" to convey the meaning that, for example, we incorrectly think that expensive things are necessarily valuable. Right?
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