I would really recommend that you do. This is not new and it has only gotten worse, and you have clearly only just caught onto this thing. The autists among us that actually follow his stream a bit more closely have been talking about this for a while now.
Asking questions is never a bad thing but as you can see your...let's say lenient take on Phil using big boy words have caught a fair bit of FLAK. Most of it I would guess is more about this is a topic that isn't really new and for anybody having actually watched Phils streams it can seem quite baffeling that somebody can even be in doubt about Phil misusing words and clearly having no fucking clue about what they actually mean.
So you insisting on that it probably only is him "mixing stuff up", can seem a bit odd.
I've known about his DSP-isms since I first saw him from his initial Heavy Rain playthrough back around the time he started. I don't believe him getting words wrong and doubling down on it is new. The topic that I question is whether we should be concerned about normal mixes and mishaps, which are constant in daily interactions.
If anything, we're all saying his ego and laziness gets in the way of being respectable, because he will say words wrong, as if he didn't look into what they meant and only looked into the Google similar section.
For example, a good one I found was him using fortuitous instead of fortunate. Fortunate is positive, fortuitous is neutral. Is it a big deal? Not really. Is it caused by him trying to use a big word and then failing? Yes.
But the big question is: what is the result of this mistake? Well, it seems people just get more annoyed, which reduces how positively people can view him, and his ego gets in the way of something like a humble laugh or correction.
Calling his wife mom however, that one peaks my interest. It is a Freudian slip, like when a kid calls their teacher mom. We laugh at it because female teachers have to act like a second mom during the day and in English we have a m for Mrs/Ms and m for mom.
But in the case of Phil, seeing a wife as a mother means his anima directed him to find a wife close to the mother archetype in his mind, and since he's possessed by his anima, THAT can be a concern. It means she's something he relies on but also fears at the same time. It means that he's a bit trapped in the Eve stage, which is where a man will picture the mother archetype in their head as a provider of nourishment and an object of desire.
In other words, how people will reveal that their wife is the one taking care of them and they rely on them for happiness. It's common in hopeless romantics and man-children. But, it's a different thing if they picture their wife as the mother of their kids, because calling them ma or mom in that way is more like mentally saying "this is the person who birthed my kids".
Maaaaaaaybe he treats the cat as a child and sees her as a cat mom, but that's a low chance and isn't really in our subconscious, it's more of a habitual and cultural thing that can dwell there if done over many years.
A good way to look at all of this is to think of how a song lyric can be said wrong.
Is it done on purpose as a joke? Well, that's just to be silly.
Is it said wrong because it was heard wrong or obscured by the music? Well that's common.
Is it said wrong because the mouth can't move properly? Well, that's motor function issues.
Is it wrong because someone didn't bother to look it up and was too arrogant to fix it after being corrected? Well, that's ego.
Is it said wrong because the brain jumbled the word up? That's a bit more concerning, because it's a mental issue.
Was it known before and now forgotten? That's a memory problem.
I try to look at all the possibilities, and I'm sure I missed some. To say it again, a lot of it is ego. Ego and laziness.
