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Off-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 spea

Off-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 ago
As 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 ago
  Me too. I'm usually pretty good at proof reading but my mind skipped that one entirely!
jsqu99 1y ago
not OP but as a native, that's a speech-to-text error 100%
navane 1y ago
As 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 ago
  I'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 ago
    This 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 ago
      Oh OK. I'd only seen native speakers make those kinds of substitutions before. TIL
readthenotes1 1y ago
Dictated 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!

BuyMyBitcoins 1y ago

As 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 ago
Me too. I'm usually pretty good at proof reading but my mind skipped that one entirely!

jsqu99 1y ago

not OP but as a native, that's a speech-to-text error 100%

navane 1y ago

As 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 ago
I'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 ago
  This 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 ago
    Oh OK. I'd only seen native speakers make those kinds of substitutions before. TIL

readthenotes1 1y ago

Dictated 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!