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I see "break" ALL THE TIME where "brake" should be used. rouge -> rogue loose -> lose lose -> loose break -> brake And many more that I can't
by naikrovek 7y ago
I see "break" ALL THE TIME where "brake" should be used.
rouge -> rogue
loose -> lose
lose -> loose
break -> brake
And many more that I can't recall at the moment... In my youth I spent an absolutely obscene amount of energy correcting these people, bit now I just automatically lower the veracity of what they're saying each time I see some literacy problem.
That isn't fair to those people because not everyone speaks English as a first language, and phones autocorrect a lot of things that should not be corrected.
- meowface 7y ago"lead -> led" (past tense of the verb "to lead") is also a pretty common one for native speakers.
- dorgo 7y agoon the other hand, if nobody had corrected my use of "loose" I wouldn't know it.
- def_true_false 7y agoSome of these are actually mistakes native speakers are prone to make, since they didn't learn the language from text first.