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to be fair, when "to" and "too" is not a typo, its quite insane. especially I sometimes see it from english native speakers, and one just has to wonder "how doe
by redeeman 4y ago
to be fair, when "to" and "too" is not a typo, its quite insane. especially I sometimes see it from english native speakers, and one just has to wonder "how does this happen???"
- callesgg 4y agoIt happens cause the words sound similar and they are also spelled in a similar way.????
- jraph 4y ago"Quite insane"?? How it happens: brain fart. We make mistakes for a lot of reasons, all the time, and it's not always logical, like the "it's" you got wrong while probably knowing full well the right spelling.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThe written form is derived from the spoken form and not the other way around. This is easy for highly literate people in writing-focused societies to forget, and our education tends to not explicitly address it. But there it is. To/too, their/they're, it's/its, should of/should've etc are all transcription errors, not a failure to understand or deploy standard grammar.
- coldtea 4y ago>to be fair, when "to" and "too" is not a typo, its quite insane. Huh? It's not only almost always a typo (as opposed to the kind of mispelling where the person writing doesn't know the difference between the two spellings), it's also a typo that's trivial to make. Doubly so if you have ADHD, and ten times so if you have dyslexia. But even for the average person, it's just an extra easy to slip o, and as a spelling looks totally legit at a quick context-free glance (which makes sense, since both to and too are actual words). Literally the opposite of a mispelling "quite insane".