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A friend wants observed to me while I was ranting about something: They would solve the problem if it weren't so valuable.
by readthenotes1 1y ago
A friend wants observed to me while I was ranting about something:
They would solve the problem if it weren't so valuable.
- sebastiennight 1y agoOff-topic but I'm curious, so please bear with me: did you dictate this message or type it? As an ESL speaker, I'm always super surprised as to what native speakers might mis-type phonetically (in ways that would never occur to non-natives), like "wants" for "once".
- BuyMyBitcoins 1y agoAs a native English speaker, I am actually shocked that I didn’t notice the wants/once discrepancy until you mentioned it. My brain must have either autocorrected or it was in ‘phonetic mode?’ when I read it.
- olddustytrail 1y agoMe too. I'm usually pretty good at proof reading but my mind skipped that one entirely!
- jsqu99 1y agonot OP but as a native, that's a speech-to-text error 100%
- navane 1y agoAs a non native speaker I make these errors in my own as speech to text machine which is my brain and body. I'd sometimes write the wrong word that's phonetically ~~different~~ the same while typing, if I'm tired or in a hurry.
- sebastiennight 1y agoI'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here. You write the wrong word, which is phonetically different (so a completely different word), but you write it "the same" (so you write the right word)?
- navane 1y agoThis just happened, while discussing my rank in a video game: "i hit be for the first time last week, but im a mid C at best" "be" should be "B" in this case. (the "different" in my previous post was "strike through" in markdown with the ~~'s. That didnt come across)
- sebastiennight 1y agoOh OK. I'd only seen native speakers make those kinds of substitutions before. TIL
- readthenotes1 1y agoDictated it. I really should proofread more often but it fails just enough to make that not worth my while. I am sorry - - I will try to proofread more often. English is hard enough without having to go through homonym-like substitutions to figure out what we mean!
- newsclues 1y agoWhy have health care when you can make more treating symptoms without a cure or prevention? Why have enough housing when rents go up during scarcity? Why make life better for your working class citizens when you can import fresh ones to exploit? Seems like there is a systemic problem that is causing the same issues in many countries.
- darth_avocado 1y agoOn the healthcare front, it would actually more profitable for insurance companies to fund preventative health care and healthier lifestyles. Instead they focus on denying coverage as a way to generate profits.
- wpm 1y agoDon't have to pay for the costs of denying preventative care if we just deny coverage for the expensive stuff too! taps forehead
- darth_avocado 1y agoThey can only deny a certain percent of care that they’re supposed to pay out before they come under scrutiny and lawsuits are filed. Preventative care can dictate better outcomes for pretty much everyone covered.
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- newsclues 1y agoFor insurance, but health care is bigger than insurance. Pharmaceutical, hospitals, equipment manufacturers. Not everyone profits maximally from healthy people.
- darth_avocado 1y agoCorrect. But incentives within the industry should balance everything out if each of these players tries to profit maximally the right way.