Oct-29-2016, 05:32 PM
So I learned the language when I was a kid still but nowadays use it quite well, I hope. Anyways, I always find it extremely funny when I find native speakers using English in a way which my teachers would have certainly marked as an error and commented as "nobody would ever use it like that". Well, there is formal language, and then there's the rest. I am not sure if they'd understand, or admit it while teaching. Anyways, this thread is for listing instances I found funny, not to offend anyone (I hope)
OK so anybody can miss a letter and type I where O was meant, no big deal. Then there's the utterly common error of confusing your and you're, which I know from younger people mostly. The youngsters (myself included graciously) also often tend to write everything small our of lazyness, but here it is switched, where gold is written with a capital g instead. This we do a lot in German, so it happens a lot to novices here, but it's funny seeing it from a native speaker. But all is topped by the same your/you're switch again, only the other way around this time. Yeee!
(Oct-29-2016, 05:08 PM)Larz60+ Wrote: Kind if like letting you neighbor take care of you're Gold (if your lucky enough to have any).
OK so anybody can miss a letter and type I where O was meant, no big deal. Then there's the utterly common error of confusing your and you're, which I know from younger people mostly. The youngsters (myself included graciously) also often tend to write everything small our of lazyness, but here it is switched, where gold is written with a capital g instead. This we do a lot in German, so it happens a lot to novices here, but it's funny seeing it from a native speaker. But all is topped by the same your/you're switch again, only the other way around this time. Yeee!