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[-] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

It's fucking disturbing how common that is, and it's 'Muricans unable to spell correctly most of the time too.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

As a 'Murican, I concur. It's almost as common as they're/their/there.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

it pains me to see loose/lose & break/brake.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

My biggest one is roll/role. I'm an actor and theatre technician and see that from other actors and theatre adjacent people more than I should. It's a role you play, not a piece of bread.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Spelling related tangent: do you differentiate between theatre and theater?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I pronounce it thartar

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Yes. I was taught "theatre" is for plays, musicals, etc as it pays homage to the history (Shakespeare and the like) . "Theater" is reserved for the movies or theater of the mind.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Interesting. In Canada it’s just theatre across the board

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

For most Americans, it's theater across the board. It's only those who have had education, training, or work in the field that use theatre. At least in my experience.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

And not the should of/would of?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I could care less

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Your both wrong.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

The fact that it's native speakers makes sense. They're the ones who learned these words by ear before learning how to read and write. We learned them in writing from the get go.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That, and the fact that this site is mostly used by Americans, therefore you will naturally see more correctly AND incorrectly spelled content from them. I can't say much about the ratio between them, but the sheer numbers affect the ratio between US and non-US users (yes, even including other native English speakers worldwide, like UK/AU).

But while it's anecdotal, people I know are just as bad/good at spelling in a foreign language as they are in their own, regardless of the way they learned either of those.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

This sums up about 97% of Greek mythology.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

at least Zeus was made to birth Athena out of his head

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

In full, yes!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Gives me The Substance vibe. Imagine that.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hi. I’d actually like to talk about the hair situation.

Like what the fuck, and what the fuck?

Edit: oh is that like a grass display or something?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, the bride has black hair only lol

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