Switzerland bores underground

Re:Switzerland bores underground by lazyjones on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:49AM (#12225861)

Perhaps it's because native English speakers more frequently communicate with English-speaking people in an informal setting (where such mistakes happen more often and are copied), whereas non-native speakers tend to read English mostly in edited publications etc. and (more sloppily) communicate with friends in their native language.

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Re:Switzerland bores underground by raverbashing on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:12AM (#12226029)

While it is true that yes, people in general communicate more sloppily in informal settings it doesn't mean they don't know the formal way of writing (at least for common terms)

German dialects are pretty far from the "official" language, but everybody knows that

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Re:Switzerland bores underground by sievebrain on Thursday August 04, 2016 @12:16PM (#12226545)

You're assuming its vs it's is always due to lack of knowledge. Sometimes it's just a brainfart.

I noticed today that I had sent an email that used the wrong form of "to" ("too" instead). This isn't because I don't know English. It's just that what came out of my fingers was wrong. Mea culpa, it happens.

The way English uses the apostrophe is especially tedious and offers no value: it'd be no real shame if the distinction between "its" and "it's" disappeared over time, just like English lost gendered nouns and words like thy and thine.

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Re:Switzerland bores underground by raverbashing on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:48PM (#12227245)

Oh brainfarts and autocorrects do happen, but by the frequency I see this mistake happening I see it's not just a regular slip

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Re:Switzerland bores underground by sievebrain on Friday August 05, 2016 @07:02AM (#12231307)

You probably see a lot more English than other languages, so you'll see a proportionally higher number of mistakes too.

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