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>> I would of I'm not a native english speaker and this error is extremely surprising to me. While I can read english correctly, if I find this error my langu
by enriquto 6y ago
>> I would of
I'm not a native english speaker and this error is extremely surprising to me. While I can read english correctly, if I find this error my language parser just panics and it destroys the whole sentence, like if it was missing a comma between "would" and "of" and the rest of the sentence is grammatically incorrect. For example: "He would, of all things, prefer to do X than Y".
How on earth so many people make this error on writing? Don't they even sound different? The "h" in "have" is completely silent?
- yomly 6y agoWould have -> would've Sounds like "would of"
- lambdaba 6y agoThanks for the charitable explanation. I sometimes spell phonetically for no reason.
- ajuc 6y agoIt's one of these errors that native speakers are more likely to make than even the beginners with English as a second language :)
- enriquto 6y agoThere's quite a few more examples of that. Like "their/they're", "your/you're" "its/it's"... I can barely speak english but I would never make these errors; how can you confuse a pronoun with a verb?
- lambdaba 6y agoYou don't really, my theory is sometimes the auditory part takes over mid-sentence, whereas when I'm in my usual visual mode the errors stand out immediately.
- enriquto 6y agoProbably... in my case since I never speak nor listen to spoken english it is mostly a written-only language to me.
- lambdaba 6y agoThat's flattering as I'm not a native speaker :)