▲ 543 ▼ 'Read' and its past tense are spelled the same. How should they be spelled? (lemmy.world) submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments What about similar oddities in English? (This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it's to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children) Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this That makes no sense since they would use it more, however native speakers from the US do have problems with it, and other words (they're/their). Rarely encounter it with others. Their spelling is embarrassing, same as their very limited vocabulary. IDK what they do in schools. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken Now there's a sentence I can't make sense of. There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it's supposed to be written. If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don't. Since it's noticably the US specifically I can only assume it's sub standard education. As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo's permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago That is still not a valid reason. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) It's true that I see it more rarely with the British. I suppose they read more or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Possibly, education is my main guess permalink fedilink source parent
[+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken Now there's a sentence I can't make sense of. There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it's supposed to be written. If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don't. Since it's noticably the US specifically I can only assume it's sub standard education. As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo's permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago That is still not a valid reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] bigfondue@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken Now there's a sentence I can't make sense of. There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it's supposed to be written. If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don't. Since it's noticably the US specifically I can only assume it's sub standard education. As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo's permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago* Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken Now there's a sentence I can't make sense of. There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it's supposed to be written. If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don't. Since it's noticably the US specifically I can only assume it's sub standard education. As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo's permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago That is still not a valid reason. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago (1 child) It's true that I see it more rarely with the British. I suppose they read more or something. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Possibly, education is my main guess permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago Possibly, education is my main guess permalink fedilink source parent