• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
    161·
    4 months ago

    Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this, I see this type of mistake far less frequently with those who learned English as an additional language.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 months ago

      Exactly. People with English as a second language go from meaning to writing. Native speakers go from sound to writing.

      There, their, they’re is something native speakers confuse as well. I have only ever observed native speaker write should of instead of should‘ve or should have.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this

      99% agree with this. This is a native speaker issue, except where someone took up bad habits from the natives…

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this

      That makes no sense since they would use it more, however native speakers from the US do have problems with it, and other words (they’re/their).

      Rarely encounter it with others.
      Their spelling is embarrassing, same as their very limited vocabulary. IDK what they do in schools.

          • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
            21·
            4 months ago

            Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken

            Now there’s a sentence I can’t make sense of.

            There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it’s supposed to be written.
            If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don’t.
            Since it’s noticably the US specifically I can only assume it’s sub standard education.
            As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo’s