What are some English errors everybody makes?- Confises "schizoid" with "schizo."- Adds an apostraphe to decades, like "the 1990's."
Fuck off weeb.
>It's vs its That one is actually easy to avoid when you always think to yourself "Can I replace it with another pronoun without changing meaning?"
Singular they
Lay laid lie.
Not everyone is a poor speller, but some people cannot spell 'confuses' or 'apostrophe.'>Some people also cannot greentext.
is it drank or drunk?
>>25626839Shakespeare used a singular they.>"There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me / As if I were their well-acquainted friend.">CE 4.3I trust authors who actually wrote literature more than I trust grammarians.
>>25626849Drank is the past tense.>I drank water.Drunk is the past participle.>I have drunk water.
'Disinterested' when they mean uninterested.
>>25626851That's not a singular they. He's shouting out all the men he meets with a plural pronoun. >'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech.
'proscribe' for 'prescribe'They sound similar, but they are antonyms.
>>25626866>They sound similar, but they are antonymswhoever came up with that should be fired. Same with Emmigrate and Immigrate.
>>25626851fowler's modern english usage, from i think the 1920s, discourages the singular they precisely for being old-fashioned
>>25626864'As if I were their friend' is an adverbial clause dependent on the singular verbal phrase 'doth salute.' It does not make sense to reinterpret the dependent clause from a generalized, indefinite singular entity to a plural pronoun.
Indian when they mean jeet
>>25626851XKCD did it
"Should of" instead of "should have" is so common now that any day I expect to start seeing "should'f" instead of "should've" being something Redditors support, and if you don't agree they are being bullied.
>>25626895based. Shit makes my blood boil. At least it's an incredibly convenient way of spotting a dummy.
>>25626462I think the subjunctive is dying out amongst native speakers. Most of the time people just say "if X was" instead of "if X were". At some point people will start calling you a prescriptivist if you try to enforce it.
>>25626866enervatePeople think it means energize
>>25627059If you say "If it was true" you are coloring things towards that it could possibly be true. If you say "if it were true" you are coloring things towards that it is not possible to be true, at least given current circumstances. Both are valid constructions, it's not a case where people saying the first thing are just ignorant of grammar. Where it becomes grating for me is when the subjunctive form is dropped for situations where you don't really have room for this kind of meaningful ambiguity. So, instead of saying "I wish you were here" they say "I wish you was here." They are not here. You cannot wish they was. Only that you wish they were. Maybe you feel my example about the truth also belongs in this category, but to me there is a difference.
>>25626864You're wrong, but they're are other instances in Shakespeare, as well as some in Chaucer
>>25626839The singular they is life saving for trans folk like me who are being genocided every day. How does it affect you?
>>25627126I want to keep it around so I have a way to reference a transo without the tattoo girl at the coffee shop trying to show me that she knows about what names people like to be called better than anyone. I wish there a similar word that would help shelve any discussion about her pets temporarily as well.
>>25627060Best example so farAlmost never used correctly. It also doesn't mean to supply a nervous system (or something metaphorically like a nervous system).
>>25626462I constantly fail at using is/are properly. Probably because I'm Swedish and we don't conjugate "to be".
>>25627146>we don't conjugate "to be".How's that work practically speaking?
>>25626462if everybody makes an error in language it's no longer and error.
>>25627252Wrong. Look up how Spain does it.
>>25626462I make some myself in speech:>on accident instead of by accident (bad habit from childhood)>I say I'm doing "good" instead of "well"The latter is a maladaption, because whenever I would answer somebody that I was "well" in my youth, I would get a retarded "well what?" in return, so I just started saying "good" instead.
>>25627090People don't obsess over the degree of counterfactuality when using the subjunctive. They navigate by feel, and what influences that intuition is simply the frequency of how often you hear it amongst other native speakers. So there could be a feedback effect.> "I wish you was here." I only ever see this in southern dialects. But that's a completely different thing
>>25627194Lots of languages have no conjugation at all anon. In Chinese I am, you are, he is, they were and we will is just I be, you be, he be, they be yesterday, and we be tomorrow.
>>25627386As far as what people say I agree, it's mostly blind habit. But I think most English speakers hear a difference between "wish it was" and "wish it were" when it's pitched at them. I don't think the "wish you was" people have the ability to receptively distinguish any more and don't understand there's a difference at all. Maybe they do though, I never asked one of them.
>>25626462I hear "costed" used a ton nowadays for some reason.
The one I see the most is faulty parallelism
>>25627625It technically is the past tense of the verb meaning 'to appraise the value of,' (e.g. 'he costed it at ten dollars') but using 'cost' like that sounds ghey.
>>25626462Invading France is a pretty common English error.
conscious / conscience lose / loosetheir / they're / there as an ESL whenever I see some native speaker make these retarded mistakes I want to slowly lower them into a vat of acid like they deserve
>>25626895this is the easiest way to tell that someone doesn’t read or think about the language they use at all
Pronouncing Cavalry CAL-vuh-ree instead of CAV-ul-ree,or Nuclear NOO-kyuh-ler instead of NOO-klee-er.Fucking retards..
>>25626462>Adds an apostraphe to decades, like "the 1990's."So in the 80s there was a computer magazine called Family Computing and they had a column called "K-Power" dedicated to games written by young people called the "Special Ks", the segment was printed on yellow paper in the middle of the magazine, anyway in one issue they took the time to explain that "Ks" should be written like that and not with an apostrophe because it's not a possessive, and I've never forgotten it.
>>25627194Mandatory subject pronouns and rigid word order, primarily. Swedish is also highly context sensitive.
I literally cannot spell 'separate, without looking it up. Every single time without fail I default to seperate.
>>25630639Seperate and lift equally.
>>25626462I believe the plurals of both numbers and letters requires an apostrophe, anon, e.g. Twenty of Twenty-six students got A's on the Geography exam.Many who are nauseated claim to feel nauseous
