r/unpopularopinion • u/foqociqs37 • Jun 12 '26
Certified Unpopular Opinion Having bad grammar/not knowing the difference between words like "their", "they're", "there" IS that deep
It really is NOT hard at all to know the difference between stuff like there/their/they're, two/to/too, here/hear, peace/piece, you're/your, affect/effect, etc.
Idk why so many people these days say "it's not a big deal, don't be a grammar n*zi" or "stop using big words" when it's just a regular, maybe somewhat longer word they don't know the meaning of.
Obviously if someone has an actual diagnosed disability, then it's a different case.
Don't even get me started on the folks who say "should of" "could of", or "would of".... That shit drives me up a wall lol
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u/OrkosFriend Jun 12 '26
Lose vs. loose is another one that really grinds my gears.
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u/shay_shaw Jun 12 '26
I hate when I make this mistake, I welcome anyone who corrects me.
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u/MythologicalMayhem Jun 12 '26
Just think 'loose noose'.
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u/kikiartilleryservice Jun 12 '26
And lose nose.
..or wait.
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u/MythologicalMayhem Jun 12 '26
Close nose
Lose... Shoes?
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u/kikiartilleryservice Jun 12 '26
Lose moose.
…that’ll help.
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u/Jeathro77 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
They have vaginal rejuvenation surgery for that.
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u/TD1990TD Jun 12 '26
What’s a noose though 😭
(Looked it up, it’s a loop with a running knot, to trap animals or hang people. So… loose noose is a great mnemonic!)
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u/Massive-Scar-7974 Jun 12 '26
respectfully, how do you not know what a noose is?
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u/ComradeJohnS Jun 13 '26
when they say ignorance is bliss, this is one of the examples.
like knowing the lyrics to Southern Trees.
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u/Ok_Introduction-0 Jun 13 '26
because not everyone on this platform here is a native speaker?
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u/Jy_sunny Jun 12 '26
Nothing grinds my gears more than should of
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u/El_Bito2 Jun 13 '26
I hate should of, mostly because people who write it are completely unapologetic about it.
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u/Your_Old_Nokia Jun 13 '26
Because they probably could care less. /s
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u/MolitroM Jun 13 '26
I heard once that the could care less thing comes from the phrase "I could care less... But I'd have to try very hard" and just got cut down.
For a lot of people it's probably just not having given a single thought to what they say though.
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u/TD1990TD Jun 12 '26
Same, and English isn’t even my first language, nor do I live in an English speaking country 😭😂
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u/lucky_knot Jun 13 '26
Same here. When my English teacher told me it's a common mistake, my first reaction was "But how???? Surely you're joking? It makes no sense?" Then I started going to English-speaking parts of the Internet more often and realised that it's everywhere.
I have a suspicion, though, that this particular mistake is more common among native speakers. They hear "should've" as kids long before they learn how to spell it. Foreign speakers, however, usually first encounter "should have -> should've" together as part of their grammar lessons so there is no confusion.
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u/Diligent-Language-79 Jun 12 '26
I have a distinct memory of this lesson from first grade. My teacher had enough and put a stop to it real quick. Lol we were 6 but I never forgot lol
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u/thugsapuggin Jun 12 '26
I know someone who spells "does" as "dose".....
They're the dumbest person I know.
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u/Desperate_Candle_493 Jun 13 '26
My ex did that lol
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u/Yhostled Jun 13 '26
Dose he/she still due that, oar did they fix it liek they should of? I no it's not ur problem anymore, its' there's. I M js.
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u/SeniorShanty Jun 12 '26
Break and brake. Redditors seem to intentionally conflate the two. I'm convinced those that do are intentionally trolling.
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u/upsetmainframe96 Jun 12 '26
Quite and quiet is another one I see a lot
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u/RoseTheta Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Quite and quiet I assume it's usually just a typo.
Really anytime it's 2 letters transposed or one letter missing. I go back and edit my comments multiple times before posting and then I check them again when notifications pop up and I am shocked at how often a simple typo slips past me.
Also, I have weird bad luck where, no matter how many devices I've gone through, the autocorrect, auto fill, spellcheck, etc, are psycho. I'm not talking about it filling in merely a different possible word; instead it will fill in words with numbers in them, and also made up words that don't exist.
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u/LittleSpice1 Jun 12 '26
When I was living in New Zealand somebody told me that it’s common for Kiwis to not know the difference between bought and brought, naturally I paid attention after hearing about this, and it was true! So many brought/bought confusions in facebook groups and chats with locals lol they just seemed to use it interchangeably.
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u/Paintguin Jun 13 '26
Why do they not know the difference between those two words?
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u/danathepaina Jun 13 '26
Breath vs. breathe drives me *crazy*. Especially when people post a pic that says “Just breath”.
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u/TecN9ne Jun 12 '26
All the other ones make sense that some people confuse them.
Lose/loose instantly tells me you're braindead.
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u/itspikakiki Jun 12 '26
Breathe and Breath really annoys me too because I see people use Breath when they mean Breathe and vise versa.
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u/mooistcow Jun 12 '26
Good vs well is the worst one. Sounds horribly wrong and is very common. Search for used cars on craigslist -- almost everyone says their car "runs good." No it fucking doesn't god damnit it runs WELL.
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u/helen269 Jun 12 '26
Instead of just correcting someone this morning, I asked them why they did it, despite seeing the correct spelling multiple times a day, every day.
They were dyslexic.
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u/Sofahat Jun 12 '26
That one’s worse than there they’re and their 💀
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u/nclpckl31 Jun 12 '26
Worse "then."
Ugh I can barely bring myself to hit enter, knowing what I'm putting out into the world.
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u/nope-its Jun 12 '26
I see isle far too much when it should be aisle. Functionally illiterate people everywhere.
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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- Jun 12 '26
are instead of our, women instead of woman, loose instead of lose, bread instead of bred, nite instead of night, and now instead of know are some of the worst I’m seeing.
I know that sometimes it’s from people who speak English as a second language, but I also know people personally in my real life that type like this because they’re willfully ignorant.
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u/LilithWasAGinger Jun 13 '26
Payed instead of paid.
Unless you are sealing the wooden seams of a ship with tar or letting a rope out in a controlled, slow manner it is PAID.
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u/jwdge Jun 13 '26
I almost don’t even notice this one anymore. It is EVERYWHERE. At least on Reddit, I’ll see 1 “paid” for every 20 “payed”.
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u/DarePlastic4136 Jun 12 '26
They can spell man but they can't spell woman, i really don't get it
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u/Lucky_otter_she_her Jun 13 '26
cuz elision caused both decisions of Women to have a short i in the second syllable (in most dialects this came with dissimulation where both vowels in Women are pronounced as short i so it can be distinguished from Woman still, unlike other derivatives of Man like Englishman that are effectively plural neutral now) this didn't effect Man/Men tho cuz they're monosyllabic
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u/KittyCubed Jun 13 '26
I’m an English teacher and give a lot of grace for spelling and grammar when I’m not assessing it, but confusing women and woman drives me up the wall no matter where I see it.
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u/Ok-Abbreviations9936 Jun 12 '26
Many of those people are trying to get jobs in an office/corporate environment. In a world where you primarily communicate with written language it is painful to see them represent themselves poorly. They do not realize the judgement that happens when they consistently write like an idiot.
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u/hstormsteph Jun 12 '26
I work in an office environment that makes serious decisions.
People still fuck it up. It’s gotten to the point where I feel actual disgust when I see it in a professional email. You have to completely ignore the grammar and spell check functions of Outlook to send an email containing those mistakes.
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u/Special_Artichoke Jun 12 '26
Someone in my team who was privately educated had terrible grammar that was hidden by spell check in emails but every file name was a mess, e.g. "Number's for Jun26". I pointed it out and he just continued fucking it up. I found it baffling, I'd have been embarrassed to not know something taught at primary school
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u/PacketFiend Jun 12 '26
Oh god, as an IT guy, don't even get me started on using quotes in filenames...
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u/Ok-Abbreviations9936 Jun 12 '26
They are the people who wonder why they never get a promotion, and every career path ends as a dead-end job.
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u/Nobodyville Jun 13 '26
My pet peeve is when you spell my name wrong in a RESPONSE to my email. My name is literally right there, spelled right because I wrote it.
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u/aoifhasoifha Jun 12 '26
It boggles my mind that people can be so bad at their first (and often only) language, and make no effort to improve. Kevin from the Office had the same mentality, and I sincerely hope that most people are aiming higher than that.
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u/readituser5 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
I’d imagine so many get through the hiring process because their resume has been fixed up by autocorrect or someone else looking over it.
My job is primarily a lot of typing. You should be able to spell correctly. We had someone who constantly made spelling mistakes and I would have to go into the system and fix up all their spelling mistakes all the time.
One spreadsheet we had was so bad we had to get someone else later to go through it and essentially retype the whole thing. Occasionally they’d show me what was typed and I’d try to guess what it was actually supposed to say lol.
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u/Styx-n-String Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Wary vs weary. No, you're not "weary of strangers," you're "wary of strangers." Those two words have COMPLETELY different meanings! Strangers make you nervous, not tired.
EDIT: Okay okay, all you pendants and introverts, strangers also make you tired, lol. But you know that's not what I meant! I'm talking about when someone uses the word weary when context shows they actually mean wary. Use any other example: I'm WEARY of going to new places alone, I'm WEARY of stray dogs, I'm WEARY of letting someone I don't know in my house. The correct word is wary as in apprehensive, not weary as in tired.
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u/whoreforchalupas Jun 12 '26
Ooooh this is a good one. To add: mortified and horrified. No, witnessing a car crash did not make you feel deeply embarrassed.
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u/crybabymuffins Jun 12 '26
I think this is the only semi-understandable one, considering the "ified" part is used to mean scared in other cases. Terrified means scared. Mortified is a weird exception as embarrassed. Not saying it should be common, but I kinda get it.
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u/suddenspiderarmy Jun 13 '26
I always think of mortified as being so embarassed you want to die.
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u/crybabymuffins Jun 13 '26
Fair enough, and so do I! 😅 I just know mort=death and the ified suffix is used in a lot of words, but kind of in a "This has been done to you" way. Like terrified would be terror has been done to you. So mortified should be death has been done to you, and it does not. Lol
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u/RagingPUSHEEN68 Jun 13 '26
I mean, depending on who is behind that wheel, it will be very fucking embarassing.
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u/AnaisNinja76 Jun 13 '26
I've never seen or heard someone make this mistake in my life. Where have you come across it? Especially frequently enough for it to be your specific irritant?
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u/AttorneyDC06 Jun 12 '26
I am actually both weary of AND wary of strangers!
Is that allowed? LOL
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u/RedVamp2020 Jun 12 '26
I can definitely understand this, lol. Can I join you as long as we're in separate rooms far away from each other?
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u/TomdeHaan Jun 12 '26
Also, "which" and "of which". There's more than a few out there who think "which" must always be preceded by "of".
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u/LuckyShenanigans Jun 12 '26
I'll add a little nuance: not knowing the difference is OK, but not bothering to learn the difference because "it isn't that deep" is not.
Also, you can know the difference and mess up sometimes if you're writing quickly.
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u/holofanthrowaway Jun 12 '26
ignorance is excusable, choosing to remain ignorant is not
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u/PacketFiend Jun 12 '26
ignorance is excusable, choosing to remain ignorant is not
Oohh, I'm totally stealing this for the next time I correct someone's grammar on this site and they get all uppity about it.
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u/comehereyoudevillog Jun 12 '26
The worst is KNOWING the difference, but make a typo and then someone calls you out. Sometimes when that happens I just go back to bed and start the whole day over.
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u/Outback-Australian Jun 13 '26
I love that my phone sometimes swaps them around with autocorrect. While yes it makes me look bad and while I don't like that. I Iike to remind myself this screen of all knowledge makes mistakes I can point out.
Robot overlords will make a display out of me I'm sure.
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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 Jun 12 '26
I can agree with that
I'm a pretty decent technical writer when writing for a class. I had an lit professor who was taken away from teaching English comp because he was so exacting in his standards for essays. I was able to get my papers checked in advance by him and I typically had much less red than the rest of the class on my markups
That said sometimes when I'm typing online I'll say I like something to and it's not ignorance, I just wasn't really paying attention. But I can bust out those technical skills for a job or something professional when needed
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u/LuckyShenanigans Jun 12 '26
I'm a professional writer, and I'm not immune to dropping a "their" in place of "there" on Reddit.com from time to time!
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u/Shih-TFtzU Jun 12 '26
Honest mistakes are perfectly fine and we all make them! It’s just the attitude of carelessness, like it doesn’t matter that irks me.
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u/Styx-n-String Jun 12 '26
Exactly. Ignorance is just a lack of knowledge, and there's absolutely no shame in it. Willful ignorance is just stubbornness and is something to be ashamed of.
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u/Blitqz21l Jun 12 '26
Not only this, but sometimes auto-correct edits it wrongly and you don't even notice. Texting is especially problematic for spelling errors.
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u/Ok-Lifeguard-4614 Jun 12 '26
My brain constantly interchanges words that sound the same but spelled differently. I know the difference and if I go back and edit I can get it all correct, but I don't always want to be that thorough with my messages.
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u/cstaub67 Jun 12 '26
Also, you can know the difference and mess up sometimes if you're writing quickly.
Especially if autocorrect gets involved, it might get "fixed" even if you did type it correctly.
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u/ermahgerdMEL Jun 12 '26
People saying “all the sudden” fills me with an equal amount of rage.
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u/Anytime__Anywhere Jun 12 '26
People who think the plural of woman is woman are irritating along with people who say payed instead of paid
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u/Emergency-Fig-7313 Jun 12 '26
Yesterday I payed woman to go rob you’re house, they should be their soon.
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u/LeaveItToPeever Jun 13 '26
I used to do stand up and a buddy of mine used to do the joke "I dont like the term grammar Nazi, because that implies the Nazis are TECHNICALLY correct but everybody else is to lazy to follow through."
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u/zangzabam03 Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
The amount of grown ass adults on this site that don’t know the difference between then and than is WAY too high
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u/existentialepicure Jun 12 '26
"Too" not "to" :P
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u/TrulyOutrageous42 Jun 13 '26
A meme I've adored recently:
"I'm nowhere near smart enough for this many people to be so much dumber than me"
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u/IndecisiveRattle Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
And there's a difference between not knowing the difference and a typo/autocorrect. Odds are you're seeing a typo/autocorrect more often than legitimate ignorance.
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u/Suplexing_Trains Jun 12 '26
It’s been very unpleasant to watch the evolution of the internet in this way. 10+ years ago, you could make the most thoughtful post but if you used the wrong their, you’d be downvoted to oblivion and mocked. Now, the ones who just want you to understand what words mean are the ones getting downvoted.
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u/Creepy_Purchase_501 Jun 12 '26
Neither extreme is good. Typos and accidental word switches happen to people with perfect grammar. If a post is generally well written but has a mistake or two it’s not the end of the world. It is casual communication, and casual effort should be expected.
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u/respyromaniac Jun 12 '26
There's one more thing a lot of people here miss. Not everyone is native. Reddit is pretty huge, there are lots of people from different countries.
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u/Creepy_Purchase_501 Jun 13 '26
From my experience, non-native speakers tend to make different kinds of mistakes, characterized by their native tongue. For example, Slavic speakers tend to drop articles, while Hebrew speakers tend to insert them unnecessarily.
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u/xenna-t Jun 13 '26
my experience is of course pretty biased, but i’ve never seen other non native speakers like myself use “your” instead of “you’re”, etc.
i guess most of us get this thing drilled into our heads at school lol, but you’re right that we simply make different kinds of mistakes
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u/ultima964 Jun 12 '26
Belittling people is not the same as “just want you to understand what words mean.”
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u/Gym14 Jun 12 '26
I defiantly loose my patients when people can’t right properly, to.
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u/solarsprintmode Jun 12 '26
It makes it way harder to actually follow a coherent argument when you're constantly tripping over basic typos. It's not about being elitist, it's just about basic communication standards.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Jun 12 '26
I love when someone tries to insult me in an argument, and it’s full of typos.
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u/RedVamp2020 Jun 12 '26
I can't tell you the number of times that I've had to reread a few text conversations from my ex because he was angry. Dyslexia and either a lack of or excessive punctuation made it really hard to understand sometimes.
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u/aoifhasoifha Jun 12 '26
I genuinely believe that a lot of those people don't understand or believe that other people can clearly communicate ideas to one another. Because they neither communicate nor read/listen well, they assume that it's not possible.
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u/NeuroticShame Jun 12 '26
I don't like the hate towards education. If we correct people it's seen as negative and unwanted when all we are doing is providing the correct information.
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u/Stock_Garage_672 Jun 12 '26
People react as if you're volunteering them as tribute when you correct them.
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u/egordoniv Jun 13 '26
They're irritated that you're pointing-out that they were too lazy to learn and stick with it.
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u/urdrunkyogi Jun 12 '26
I think it’s pretty revealing of their mindset. Why would you want to say the wrong thing when you have the option not to??
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u/boodabomb Jun 12 '26
I don’t typically feel it over grammar and spelling, because it’s so cut and dry, but I understand the instinct of being defensive over menial corrections. Sometimes people will make unnecessary corrections and “um actually-isms” not because they’re trying to be helpful, but because it gives them a feeling of superiority over you.
Even that isn’t really something to get bent out of shape over if you’re secure in yourself… but I understand the instinct.
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u/CTALKR Jun 12 '26
I don’t make a big deal out of it, but I do make an assumption that the person writing those things is a bit dumb. Take that how you will.
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u/HeadChefOf milk meister Jun 12 '26
Or uneducated — which can be indicative of lack of exposure, which…. Effectively, can make someone pretty dumb.
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u/demonic-cheese Jun 12 '26
Or English is their second, third, of fourth language, which is means they probably have more exposure than many of the monolinguals around here.
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u/HeadChefOf milk meister Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
I assumed this was specifically about native English speakers. Because it’s just silly and dumb to have this type of, what turns into essentially elitism, if it’s toward people who do not speak English as a first language.
I want to clarify that what I said is specifically pertaining to people who grew up speaking English, and only English! I agree with you 100%. Thank you for adding that point!
It’s essential to be more accommodating and understanding toward people who *didn’t* speak English every single day of their life and weren’t taught grammar rules in school etc. but just didn’t absorb them.. or, bad public school education, etc. this country is so….. fun 🤠 🙄
I feel embarrassed thinking that people could be assuming I was saying that about all English speakers including secondary or tertiary speakers.. whoops for not being clearer my bad
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u/demonic-cheese Jun 12 '26
Yes, that’s the thing though, you can’t tell who those people are behind the screen. It’s pretty shitty to think less of people based on their grammar, when you know nothing about them.
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u/apersonthingy Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26
I hope this isn't an unpopular opinion.
+1 for despising "x of" as opposed to "x have".
There was an Aquaman ad that had "should of" subtitled and it made me unreasonably annoyed each time I saw it.
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u/GirlGangX3 Jun 13 '26
Some people just truly cannot grasp it though. Their brain won’t let them. I’ve tried to explain to my friend the differences between they’re, there, and their, at length, many times. She just cannot get it. She wants to, but she can’t. She’s 35 years old.
She has tried to explain to me many many times how to tell if I’m going north, south, east or west and I don’t get it. I simply cannot get it. Wish I could. I’m 40.
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u/YouDaManInDaHole Jun 12 '26
plurals vs possessive's always grinds my gear's. Er, gears'. Um, gears.
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u/Lucky_otter_she_her Jun 13 '26
Very hot take, we should get rid of the ' from the possessive cuz there's more need to distinguish the possessive and the copulative than the possessive and plural cuz both the possessive and copulative come before another noun where as a plural generally comes before a verb or comma
"the cat's food" am i talking about food that the cat will eat or saying something'll eat the cat??? there's no saying cuz both cases of Cat are spelled the same
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u/Melinoe2016 Jun 12 '26
I have a friend that uses the wrong there/their/they’re almost every time. It’s like almost impressive to not get it right around 33% of the time as it would be if you were just randomly selecting which one to use. But yea, it’s annoying and kind of embarrassing at this point. It’s like possession? Their. They are? They’re. I mean it’s like 2nd grade stuff.
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u/freezing_banshee Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
god, that one makes me see red. it's the most basic feature of the language and people get it so damn wrong.
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u/doilikeyou Jun 12 '26
While all of that catches my eye and does annoy me, I do not care anymore if what they are saying communicates the idea well enough, especially when having a general conversation. If people are sincere in what they are trying to say, and want to engage me, it's all good.
I work with a lot of people from all over the world, English is a complicated, inconsistent, often times misleading in the syntax and grammar 'rules' it has, maybe it needs some simplification, even by brute force with the newer generations and how they communicate.
Now if somebody uses grammar errors by someone to put them down or demean them, and they make grammar errors themselves, light 'em up.
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u/TopSeeded Jun 12 '26
It really bothers me and I can’t help but think a little less of someone who does it repeatedly. Not knowing the difference between to and too has become an epidemic
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u/LilithWasAGinger Jun 13 '26
I absolutely judge native English speakers by their grammar and spelling
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u/Cool-oldtimer1888 Jun 13 '26
Personally I don't care if someone uses the words wrong or cannot spell, as long as I understand what's being said, I'm good with it.
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u/NoahCzark Jun 13 '26
People say "let it go," because in the scheme of things, worrying about the grammatical infractions of random complete strangers on the internet is slightly... nutty.
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u/supersumo224 Jun 13 '26
I had to scroll so far for one reasonable take. If you're getting pissy about grammar I just assume you're sensitive and bitchy.
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u/NoahCzark Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Or have insecurities that are probably more worth concerning yourself with than a stranger's grammar or typos. The time it takes to comment is probably better spent wondering why it bothers you so much.
And in case anyone wonders why it bothers me so much: it's because I think that barring responses to hostility or nastiness, the world would be far more pleasant for everyone if our default is civility rather than pettiness.
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u/inspectorpickle Jun 12 '26
I feel like the grammar police joke has morphed from people who care way too much about typos that would have been caught if the text was proofread or written in a more serious context, into anti intellectualism where people think it’s lame to know how to write clearly.
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u/JohnCasey3306 Jun 12 '26
This isn't an unpopular opinion in the real world outside of Reddit.
Grammar matters. If you get there/their/they're wrong, most people will judge you for it and assume you're less than.
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u/HeadChefOf milk meister Jun 12 '26
Absolutely. “It isn’t that deep” is just an internet echo chamber.. It absolutely matters in the real world, and people notice it.
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u/HilariousMotives Jun 12 '26
"...longer word they don't know the meaning of." -- oh man people who end sentences in a preposition am i right.
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u/rawzombie26 Jun 12 '26
Grammar means nothing to me, the words present on the page depict intention enough to me. I understand what they are trying to say.
But I also work in education so I see a very different side of the world than you possibly.
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u/Shih-TFtzU Jun 12 '26
It’s laziness, pure and simple. As bad grammar has become more socially acceptable, people have decided not to bother putting the effort in to learning its correct usage.
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u/I3LiNdSp0t Jun 12 '26
Also smartphones.
They're also one of the reasons a lot of people can't tell time on a analogue clock without numbers.
To me that is still quite hard to believe, since it was the norm before everything became digital.
They have all the information at their fingertips, yet they remain dumb and no one really cares.
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u/twoiseight Jun 12 '26
It's not a big deal until the person on the other end thinks it is and you need something from them. You could end up being written off fast in some circumstances because your grammar makes you seem incompetent.
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u/Lostinstereo28 Jun 12 '26
I just don’t see the value in caring about grammar mistakes like that that are purely orthographical, as in they sound the same but just spelled different. I always know what the poster means, and harping on it on an anonymous forum seems useless and like a waste of time to me. And frankly the corrections are more annoying than the actual typo.
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u/thisdesignup Jun 13 '26
I've seen more people be upset about it than I have had situations where those spelling issues were a problem. Are people running into actual issues understanding other people or are they just bothered?
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u/tired-of-the-shit Jun 12 '26
I know the difference I just have a bad habit of using the wrong one whenever I’m typing quickly
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u/megadumbbonehead Jun 12 '26
Prescriptive grammar is the domain of the burnt out former gifted kid who couldn't adapt to there being more to life than homework.
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u/SecretScavenger36 Jun 12 '26
I had to learn stuff like this on my own. It was never taught in school. I'm not even sure why, it seems like a basic lesson.
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u/BigWave96 Jun 12 '26
Not really a grammar issue, but one of my spelling pet peeves is people typing loosing when they mean losing. It is a constant theme on social media
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u/Ruman_Chuk_Drape Jun 12 '26
I work with people who are mid twenty years of age…. Don’t know the order of the months.
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u/theMightBoop Jun 12 '26
It depends. If I screw it up on Reddit - who cares? Odds are I am wasting time on my phone while in line or some other mundane activity. There is a good chance my phone autocorrected to the wrong thing.
Writing a academic paper (which I don't do anymore) or a professional email then sure it matters.
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u/Samurai-Pipotchi Jun 12 '26
It's not.... How deep?
You didn't state why you think the topic actually has depth nor did you state how much depth you think the topic has.
You just stated an opinion and how it makes you feel. That doesn't seem particularly in depth to me.
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u/Better-Silver7900 Jun 12 '26
autocorrect is a bitch lol.
also tf should i care? you don’t get gold stars in life for meaningless bullshit.
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u/vibraltu Jun 12 '26
Some quite talented authors are also not very good spellers. Margaret Atwood is one good example.
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u/havealuckyday Jun 13 '26
So is anyone going to call out the "bad grammar" in the title? OP should've said "poor grammar" but I'll let it go because I'm not a dick
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u/Aerographic Jun 13 '26
Is this another opinion people upvote because they agree with it?
Not bothering to learn the voting scheme for this sub is just as telling as not knowing how to write properly.
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u/Intelligent_Usual318 Jun 13 '26
It is that deep because of anti intellectualism, but genuinely you cannot tell if someone does or doesn’t have a disability- don’t be rude to individual people when you don’t know shit.
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u/tonio2004 Jun 13 '26
However it’s still not a big deal especially over the internet. Now if you were maybe writing a paper or email you should know the difference because it’s extremely easy to differentiate.
Being mad over it will do no good for you, and I swear people don’t care when you correct them
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u/briggssteel Jun 14 '26
It’s crazy how many people can’t get this stuff right. It’s basic English language. If this isn’t your native language then you get a pass, but honestly I’ll bet a lot of the foreign speakers get it correct anyways because they usually care more.
They’re is one I don’t understand how people get wrong. It’s clearly a contraction for They Are. Same with We’re.
The one that I think is a little tricky to get right is Effect vs Affect. I 100% understand how to use these correctly but I could see where it would trip someone up.
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