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I think this mostly happens to native English speakers for some unimaginable reason. I don't remember ever making this mistake (but do remember plenty others to
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I think this mostly happens to native English speakers for some unimaginable reason. I don't remember ever making this mistake (but do remember plenty others to make up for it), and can't imagine myself doing it. Yet it happens to native speakers all the time.
- rosetremiere 4y agoI would guess that the difference native/foreign is simply due to the way language is learned: for native speakers, it's first and mostly orally. This doesn't explain a later appearance of mistakes though…
- michaelmarkell 4y agoI right a lot less now then I did as a kid, so maybe it’s about just staying sharp
- layer8 4y agoAs a nonnative English speaker (actually mostly reader/writer/listener), I started doing that at some point (many years after English proficiency), to my own dismay.
- arc-in-space 4y agoI'm not native and I absolutely do this. 500 grams of flower...
- MauranKilom 4y ago> I don't remember ever making this mistake (but do remember plenty others to make up for it), and can't imagine myself doing it. Yet it happens to native speakers all the time. I used to think that, too. But now my fingers just type the words as I hear them spoken in my mind, and that seems to occasionally produce homophones. Kinda fascinating what this says about our language processing, to be honest!
- exikyut 4y agoI was most disconcerted to find myself doing the same thing of late. It is very curious; like my brain internally just couldn't be bothered anymore to expend the energy to delineate their and there until I'm in the process of actually typing. But that means the signalling fires a tad late, so I'm going back and fixing stuff.