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u/Heatsigma12 28d ago
i dont get how native english speakers mix up your and you're
its literally that you'RE has 're there cant people associate the 're with "are"?
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u/jxly7 28d ago
The worst one is lose and loose. It’s incredible how people that have been alive for decades speaking, reading and writing English fluently can still get these wrong.
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u/RednocNivert 28d ago
Haha what a looser —People with more fingers than braincells trying to sound tough
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u/Mikaeus_Thelunarch 27d ago
"Should/would/could of" kills me every time. I get that it like that in speech, but cmoooon it doesn't even make sense
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u/ChalixianDratMinyasu 27d ago
Even then, a simple contraction fixes that! "Could've, should've, would've" swipe type and autocorrect gets it, why can't they??? ;-;
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u/Electrical_Cress_143 27d ago
Makes no sense at all; what do they think the “of” even means?? The verb is “to have” as in “to have done something”, not “to of done something”. Madness.
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u/snaglbeez 27d ago
Besides this one, the other one I see people mixing up all the time is breathe and breath.
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u/Decent_Blacksmith_ 27d ago
I struggle with tinny and tiny but I’m not native. I sometimes duplicate consonants or at the end of words I duplicate Ls at some words ended in ful.
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u/RangingBloyster 28d ago
I will dare to step up and ask, what’s the difference?
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u/Yegas 28d ago edited 27d ago
"Lose" is a verb that means to suffer a loss, to be deprived of, or to fail to keep something. "Loose" is an adjective that means not firmly attached, or not tight.
Loose also can be used as a verb, meaning to set free or release something / someone.
“loose the dogs” means to set the dogs free; not to be confused with “lose the dogs”, meaning to become deliberately separated from the dogs until you can’t find them / they can’t find you.
“You lose” is declaring the other person lost at something (a game or event most likely). “You loose” is declaring their tightness is not up to par.
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u/redbistec123 25d ago
I thought it was spelled loose to say lose because ppl would say it too much it would meant something similar😭😭
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u/KrazyKyle213 24d ago
Unfortunately, grammar isn't taught in most places in the USA, so you end up with people who are barely literate, lack reading comprehension, and have the English abilities of people in 4th grade.
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u/IcedBepis 28d ago
If I don't know if a contraction is appropriate I just break it down. You're = you are, they're = they are, it's = it is. Like it's not that hard
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u/Tyfyter2002 28d ago
Supposedly some of them were explicitly taught in school not to actually read and to just guess words based on context instead.
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u/Heatsigma12 28d ago
like i know theyre pronounced the same but like still just come on
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u/jljl2902 28d ago edited 28d ago
I recently realized that I actually pronounce them differently lol
Edit: apparently some IPA transcriptions are different as well, so a lot of people pronounce them differently
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u/Wingnutmcmoo 27d ago
In my area people with local accents tend to say "yoor" when saying "you're" and something closer to "yuur" for "your"
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u/Heatsigma12 27d ago
i kinda pronounce your shorter compared to you're, idk if anyone else does that
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u/Death_black 27d ago
And then there are they're, their and there as well as then and than.
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u/Heatsigma12 27d ago
i can kinda get then and than, theres no easy way to differentiate the two compared they're and their or you're and your
still not that hard to tell the two apart tbh
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u/ubiquitous-joe 26d ago
Whereas I don’t get how people are constantly so perplexed by this on Reddit. Editing and composing are different skills. Native speakers learn the language by ear. Your brain associates sounds and spellings. It is extremely common to transpose spellings for homophones when composing. It could mean that a person is too ignorant to consciously understand the difference in the first place. But far more likely it just means they didn’t spend effort proofreading whilst being an asshole on the Internet.
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u/VoodooDoII 26d ago
No genuinely
My friends have Spanish as a native language and their English is better than some Americans with English as their native
Literally how.
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u/MrMilesDavis 28d ago
I grew up in a place where a bunch of the natives said things like "don't" instead of "doesn't". They're literally contractions.
"It don't do that" - it do no do that - really?
"It doesn't do that" it does not do that - obviously correct
There were 60,000 people living there, this wasn't 3rd world Alabama
It's literally 1rst grade
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u/jack31313 28d ago
I think your all being a bit harsh. You should change you're comments.
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u/SmartHarleyJarvis 28d ago
It's so funny how the blue check went from "oh, that's actually Pedro Pascal," to "this is definitely going to be a dumb take."
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u/Formal-Library6682 25d ago
Imagine going through someone else's tweets for a comeback, and still be fucking wrong. Certified Twitter Moment.
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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 28d ago
Online interactions can be the best sometimes. If the moron is happy everyone’s happy - we can all put our phones down and be happy together
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u/Otherwise-4PM 28d ago
No, you’re wall.