These are a dead giveaway that someone speaks English as a second language. You can tell right away because they never mix them up. Native speakers use whatever they're hearts desire.
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True, my pet-peeve as an ESL speaker is that native speakers write it's instead of its all the time. They could make it right and save one character, but nope.
I'm pretty particular about my there, their, and they're but what you described happens to me all the time. My phone defaults to using "it's" and, unlike many other scenarios, I don't feel like correcting that one is worth the time it takes to do so.
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As a native speaker who has to write grammatically correct, professional communications all day, it drives me crazy other native speakers can't be bothered.
A lot of people would get "its" wrong anyway, but my autocorrect on my phone changes it basically every single time. Including just now. I sometimes don't catch it, other times I don't feel like fighting a touch screen to go back and fix it. Having said all that, it's a pet peeve of mine too lol
My pet peeve is "could of"
And they also regularly use whatever vowel suits their mood. It's like they have a vowels bucket where they're all mixed up.
As a non native speaker I almost always type "it's" out before my brain autocorrect reminds me "that means 'it is'" and then I have to correct it to "its" - it's kinda counter-intuitive...
The confusing part of “it’s” vs “its” is that “its” is a pronoun, and therefore its possessive doesn’t use the apostrophe, where as you use one with possessive nouns. So usually when you are writing you’re thinking about the possessive relationship, not so much about whether you are using a pronoun to describe your subject.
“My Lemmy account’s username”
“Its username”
It’s funny because my phone defaults to adding the apostrophe when I just type “its” but if I follow it with a noun (or adjective) it automatically goes back and removes it.
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I've seen non native speakers use better grammar than native speakers
Thatsthejoke
Fuckin whoosh on my ass
I see what you did they're at the end ;)
Hah, funny. As a non-native speaker I never mix them up as I am very conscious of it when I'm writing. I'm also often translating from French in my mind to English on "paper" which helps differentiate all of them since they don't sound the same in French.
If you are a proper stereotypical French speaker though, I bet you confuse "actually" with "currently" all the time ;)
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This makes me want to commit war crimes
Theiribble
Your literally worst then Hitler!
*wurst
Your welcome has expired
I have shat upon better people for lesser crimes.
I have become radicalized
You can just call me Matt though.
I don't get it. There all the same word.
checked to see if I actually launced reddit
Tank yuo
You English very yes!
Brilliant. Sadly, someone will see this and trust it. Butt I'm still hear fore it.
Eye sea watt yew did their.
Tyehr
Tax
Wheir is the mistake?
Its right they're, you can see it!
*They'r
You monster!
Usefull
Truly a shit post, sir
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The spoken language is the actual language. If three things are written different but sound the shame, then that's a failure of the writing system, not the individual.
I would in principle agree with you, however not about English, mainly because it is now a language of international discourse of any kind, and it thus no longer belongs to the local speakers.
It now has a role Latin had until just a few centuries ago, and extrapolating a bit into the future from that example, will remain quite stable while your dialect, American, Australian, Indian, Jamaican, will change until it becomes another language entirely, no longer mutually intelligible with the other dialects.
If you want to participate in the international dialog however, you will have to learn International, which is now English including the differentiation of the theiy'res, even if your native language is English. Your grand-grandchildren may have to learn English like an Italian in 1800 had to learn Latin if he wanted to join the international discourse.
It's super interesting to watch this process unfold right now!
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