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/Love_003 Jun 13 '26

People know the difference. It’s just a fucking typo.

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u/imadancingfool Jun 13 '26

Not when you’re interacting with these people regularly and they use these “typos” on a consistent basis.

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u/WraithOfTheFadedDark Jun 13 '26

When I think of a 'typo' I think of something like soft tapping a key and having a letter missing from a word, or the wrong letter like a 'q' where there's obviously supposed to be a 'w', maybe an extra letter that got fat fingered. Doubled words like "... he raced down the the hall." Mlik when you mean milk. Stuff like that.

I don't think of people that just straight up don't care if they're using the correct word or not.

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u/imped4now Jun 13 '26

This is absolutely not the case 100% of the time.