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Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy? (infosec.pub)

submitted 9 months ago by Slinky5737@infosec.pub to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you're or there/their/they're. I'm curious about similar mistakes in other languages.

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[–] Lupus108@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On windows, hold 'alt' and then type the numbers 1 6 4 for lower case and 1 6 5 for upper case ñ.

That's their places in the ASCII table, you can do that with any special characters, look up their place in the ASCII table, press alt and the respecting number, release alt and voila.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

SO many people don't know the ALT+Number combo nowadays it's surprising. I learnt about it in 4th grade in elementary school in 1999.