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Re:Stop Acting Like You're Famous by curtisblaine on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:26AM (#40061895)
> Which is what bugs me about native grammar mistakes: only native people make them

Why does it bug you? They are different classes of mistakes but both have driven the language over the centuries. Why are native mistakes wrong but immigrant mistakes good?

Re:Stop Acting Like You're Famous by sph on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:13AM (#40062573)
Because in my limited experience (I am fluent in only two other languages apart from English), "native grammar mistakes" only happen to native English speakers.

For example, I know Italian and French, yet I cannot think of any weird misspelling only native Italian or French speakers do. I always wondered if it's because of education or how grammar is taught in Anglosaxon countries that is ultimately the root cause of these errors. It is a peculiar phenomenon.

Re:Stop Acting Like You're Famous by glandium on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:52AM (#40063287)
I'm French. I can't list them off the top of my head right this moment, but there definitely are annoying errors that natives do that are in the same category as "could of".