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It's a bit infuriating when English isn't your native language because I could never remember the right spelling.
by grishka 6y ago
It's a bit infuriating when English isn't your native language because I could never remember the right spelling.
- bombcar 6y agoI think I can take it on behalf of Americans and we'll just make "referer" a US spelling like we did with "thru".
- kortex 6y agoThe internet may help achieve what centuries of attempted English spelling reform has failed to do: simplification of spelling. There are two competing forces at play: - readily available spell checkers - the international interplay of ideas The former stabilizes spelling, the latter says "screw it, through is spelled thru, I made up yeet, and emoji are valid grammar". But also grammar and spelling Nazis. My money is on fluidity of language.