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Existence of an "anti-additive" (or "never linear") map?

Does there exist a continuous function $f:\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R$ such that $f(0)=0$ and $f(x+y)\neq f(x)+f(y)$ for all linearly independent $x$ and $y$? (On a sidenote: what's a good name for this? My suggestion would be contra-linear or anti-additive; I thought also of anti-linear, nowhere linear and globally non-linear, but these were misleading).

(I was lead to this question when investigating whether one can always find the vertices of a parallelogram (or more specifically, a square) in the graph of a continuously differentiable function $f:\mathbb R^2\to\mathbb R$. The nonexistence of anti-additive functions would imply the existence of a parallelogram in the graph of any continuous function.)

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