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Synchros

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I know a guy who went to college to be a gradeschool teacher. He asked me if there were two "g"'s in pig.

Why is it people can spell realty, realtor and nuclear... but can't say them?
 
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English is difficult to spell correctly because there is little relation between how a word is written, and how it's pronounced. To native speakers it may come naturally to some degree, although even they can have difficulty pronouncing a word they've never heard spoken before.

Look at words like 'deviant' and 'defiant'. Their spelling is only different by one constonant, their meaning closely related, but when it comes to pronouncing them, well... ;)

Many other languages have much easier transcriptions. If you hear an unknown word in german or dutch you can probably write it down correctly. If you read a word you have never heard spoken before, it'd say changes of pronouncing it correctly are 99%.
 
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there
their
they're


there
1.
in or at that place (opposed to here): She is there now.
2.
at that point in an action, speech, etc.: He stopped there for applause.
3.
in that matter, particular, or respect: His anger was justified there.
4.
into or to that place; thither: We went there last year.
5.
(used by way of calling attention to something or someone): There they go.





their
1.
a form of the possessive case of they used as an attributive adjective, before a noun: their home; their rights as citizens; their departure for Rome.
2.
(used after an indefinite singular antecedent in place of the definite masculine form his or the definite feminine form her): Someone left their book on the table. Did everyone bring their lunch?



they're
contraction of they are.
 
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Thought isn't taught, its isn't it's, your isn't you're, and there are many more (it does even rime).

I find it very funny that I, not a native english speaker, find grammar mistakes in posts of people from USA, GB, Canada and so on.

As far as I am concerned, I check my posts seven times before I send them, to avoid grammar and syntax mistakes. That is because I want the readers to understand me and to reply to my posts, and also because it's important for me to write proper english.

Sometimes I find errors after I posted and then I use the 'edit' option to correct it.
 
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snoutke said:
Thought isn't taught, its isn't it's, your isn't you're, and there are many more (it does even rime).

I find it very funny that I, not a native english speaker, find grammar mistakes in posts of people from USA, GB, Canada and so on.

As far as I am concerned, I check my posts seven times before I send them, to avoid grammar and syntax mistakes. That is because I want the readers to understand me and to reply to my posts, and also because it's important for me to write proper english.

Sometimes I find errors after I posted and then I use the 'edit' option to correct it.
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rime isn't rhyme

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i had to do it!
 
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Benm

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Eudaimonium said:
Oh yeah, that also gets my nerves.

"could of" and "would of" are most common examples.

Funny, how do people miss that?
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Fairly easily really...

Compare:

"That could've gone wrong"

and

"That is kind of a bad idea"

In writing they are very different, but the pronounciation of the concatenated could-have is not that far from 'of' if you listen carefully. This is not a mistake someone with any knowledge of writtin english would make, but if you are only used to hearing english spoken in movies and have no education in writing i can imagine how it happens.
 
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stekelzak said:
'could of' instead of 'could have' :huh:
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Other way around, 'could of' doesn't exist ;)

It sounds like that because most people say it too quickly to hear the whole word "have", so you only really hear the 've' at the end, which sounds like 'of' :D
 
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Synchros

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Eudaimonium said:
Oh yeah, that also gets my nerves.

"could of" and "would of" are most common examples.

Funny, how do people miss that?
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That seems to me to be no more than lazy speaking... some form of mumbling.

Words sounding different than how they look are one thing. Take the word "jewelry". Why on earth do people say "joolery"? This drives me mad.
 
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Kookapeli said:
I beg to differ :) Things can be learnt and things were learned.

learnt is a British word and is in the Oxford English Dictionary
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Leave Things out of this - hes a well respected mod on these forums ;)
 
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