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Oddly enough I think some kinds of foreign learners end up _more_ worried about some aspects of written english than native speakers. Things like they're/there/
by alextp 16y ago
Oddly enough I think some kinds of foreign learners end up _more_ worried about some aspects of written english than native speakers. Things like they're/there/their, affect/effect, it's/its etc are more likely to deceive someone who learned english orally than someone who did it by the web/as a second language.
At least, as a foreigner, it never ceases to amaze me that these things are even issues at all.
- ugh 16y agoIts and it’s is easy for me but seems to be a big problem for many native speakers.
- alextp 16y agoI think it might have something to do with translating. These "confusing" sets of words are translated as completely different things in portuguese. On the other hand, my high school teacher usually used "why" and "because" to explain the difference between "porque" and "por que" in portuguese (and she could, although she didn't, also use "the reason" as an analogy for "o porquê").