That's the least of the grammatical problems in that post.

"We can't say how much pissed we are because you would see how greed we really are."

:eyetwitch:

I don't know, but a lot of people in this thread seem to suggest that it's them not being a native speaker that's the problem.

In my experience it's actually the opposite, so many native speakers mess up things like your/you're, it's insane. Well, any time something is off about the English grammar on the internet, we blame the American education system.

Sometimes it's funny, though. Like "for all intensive purposes".

The amount of times I've seen this error over the last 5+ years, and until now I've not seen one comment mention it. Thank you you've restored my faith in people knowing what words mean. I've got to the point that if I see it in prose I stop reading because I assume the writer is an idiot.

Oh, it sure as hell was.

I have come around to accept my occasional misspellings, incorrect verb forms, not really knowing with certainty when to use "in" or "on" and even mangled or mixed expressions whenever I write something in English (which is not my native language) as a way to show that the text was not written by AI.

PS: My personal top English-language mistake for a number of years was "later" vs "latter" - I genuinely thought that when I saw the word "latter" written, that was a spelling mistake and one time I even "corrected" a native English speaker on it (who should've pointed out my mistake, which I would've gladly accepted since I would rather be corrected than keep on making such a dumb mistake - as I did for a few more years - but this person was very middle class English).

As a non native speaker: where is the difference?

People saying "women" while meaning "woman" make my eye twitch too

It started happening to me after I degoogled my phone and predictive text no longer cares about sentence syntax. When I see it on a largely anti-google or anti-microsoft space I think that's a safe bet what's happening half the time

It's probably a loost course.

idk I always have a lil trouble with it and have to do a double take when writing it. it's just so ingrained that oo makes the u sound so theoretically lose should be spelled loose because lose should sound like lowe's. that might just be me doe

Perhaps for a lot of people… English is not their native language? (Including me). Grammatical stuff will always be iffy, even in peoples own native language. I even mess up grammatical stuff in my native language, lol.

That’s not all… auto correct helps with everything these days and thus people usually don’t really think anymore about what is the correct way to write a word. I suppose.

Though, why do you get so upset about something like this? Just boils your blood for absolutely no reason. It’ll just keep bothering you while you can’t solve the problem. Good luck.

Maybe to non native speakers, or people not used to reading / writing, lose rhymes with hose. Loose is like look, so they must sound alike. /shrug

It's from a prediction market site (which is just gambling in a trenchcoat and Groucho Marx glasses) where you buy shares in the prediction of an outcome. That's the price for a share in "Yes".

I read an article by a teacher the other day, who begrudgingly rejoiced a little bit whenever she found a spelling error in a student's work. Because that meant it at least wasn't written by AI.

It's tricky, isn't it? Will the amount of people who actually know how to spell decrease significantly because of AI?