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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when i see it, i just hope its someone who is not a native english speaker

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This mistake is more typical of native speakers. Same as with using “of” instead of “have”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah most non-native speakers never get this wrong. I wonder if it's because non-natives learn the language in a structured environment like school, whereas native speakers learn it by absorption, and everyone speaks english long before starting school?
Or maybe it's just because the American education system is absolutely fucked

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the American education system is absolutely fucked

I've always felt it's a cultural issue. Just about every kid I knew thought that school was the worst prison imaginable. It was something to hate. If you disagreed with that, you were a "nerd" and should be mocked and bullied for it. That was reflected in the media at the time I grew up too.

What I don't really get though is how people can read plurals every day 100 times with their own eyes and still not internalize how they work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could it be that if every kid thinks school sucks, perhaps it's because the school sucks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I always thought it was due to anti-intellectualism. In America it's a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, but i looked at ops other posts and some of them are in french, so my guess is they are indeed not a native english speaker

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I of no idea's what youre talking about. People write that? Makes no sense? But this weird of/have I recognized already