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Non-native speaker here. I never say "could of" when I meant "could've", or "there" when I meant "their" or "they're". I don't understand why native speakers co
by PopsiclePete 10y ago
Non-native speaker here. I never say "could of" when I meant "could've", or "there" when I meant "their" or "they're". I don't understand why native speakers confuse them so much. Our brains must be wired differently because of how we learned to speak and write the language.
- brokenmachine 10y agoI'm a native speaker and I never make those mistakes. I find it irritating when I read writing that includes those kinds of basic mistakes. Of course, you even see those kinds of basic mistakes on the TV, especially the news tickers. I see about one per week, and I'm not even consciously looking for them. I think it's people who have never read a lot, so they just write whatever sounds similar. Just seems lazy to me to not check, and after reading these comments from non-natives who can get it right, I now think it's super-lazy.