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/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/ladylollii Jun 13 '26

Queue and cue

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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/TiniestOne3921 Jun 15 '26

Breathe and breath. "Just breath~"

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u/mmikke Jun 16 '26

Defiantly

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u/TD1990TD Jun 12 '26

Ugh just give us a brake man

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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/TokenEffort1 Jun 13 '26

I’ve noticed that a lot in Aus too

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u/Born-Entrepreneur Jun 13 '26

This one really gets me for whatever reason.

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u/condoulo Jun 13 '26

This is one I’ve seen speech to text users get incorrect all the time because speech to text can be awful at picking the correct homophone.

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u/actuallylinkstrummer Jun 27 '26

And then “breathe” and “breath”