• Herzenschein@pawb.social
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    16 hours ago

    That is a decent way of finding out whether the person is a native English speaker, actually.

    This rarely happens to non-native speakers.

    • morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com
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      I think the key is whether the person learns by phonetics (young age, first language) vs by text (older, not first language).

      Then the more studious originally-phonetics-learners can supplement their understanding with text later in life and overcome errors like the one in the OP.

  • Akatsuki Levi@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Hack: if you see a ’ at the word, thats two words(or more!) in a trenchcoat trying to fool you!

    Split then, and read what you’re trying to say with the words splitted

    Example: You’re splits to “you are”, so the quote goes “Split then, and read what you are trying to say with the words splitted”

    Your becomes this: Split then, and read what your trying to say with the words splitted

    Your implies “hey, here is your phone”, which isn’t correct While “you are” implies you and a action that you are performing

    Isn’t is the same thing, splits to “is it not” (3 words! Devils)

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    19 hours ago

    I noticed that people will sometime’s do this and I learned a bit about it and apparently some culture’s do it, but it still doesn’t make sense because the people in question do it without any discernable consistency or pattern

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works
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    Add commas after “WHY” and “mistake”. Change “it’s” to question form “is it” or consider expanding the start like “Why do I find… it’s…”

    1/5 see me after class

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    Weird. They’re easy to distinguish from their intended uses… For me, it’s always things like effect vs affect.