What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Where, were, we're. Even native speakers have problems with this. I don't know how many times I had to correct such cases, especially with American authors.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this, I see this type of mistake far less frequently with those who learned English as an additional language.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Where, were, we’re.

    I never had a problem with those, until I started with stuff like Reddit.

    Now, I find myself making the mistake and catching it in proofreading.
    Guess my brain is starting to age too.

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