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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by sebastiennight on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:11PM (#44606402)
Off-topic but I'm curious, so please bear with me: did you dictate this message or type it? As an ESL speaker, I'm always super surprised as to what native speakers might mis-type phonetically (in ways that would never occur to non-natives), like "wants" for "once".
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by BuyMyBitcoins on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:18PM (#44606485)
As a native English speaker, I am actually shocked that I didn’t notice the wants/once discrepancy until you mentioned it. My brain must have either autocorrected or it was in ‘phonetic mode?’ when I read it.
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by olddustytrail on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:25PM (#44606584)
Me too. I'm usually pretty good at proof reading but my mind skipped that one entirely!
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by jsqu99 on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:28PM (#44606615)
not OP but as a native, that's a speech-to-text error 100%
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by navane on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:08PM (#44607196)
As a non native speaker I make these errors in my own as speech to text machine which is my brain and body. I'd sometimes write the wrong word that's phonetically ~~different~~ the same while typing, if I'm tired or in a hurry.
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by sebastiennight on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:48AM (#44632396)
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean here.

You write the wrong word, which is phonetically different (so a completely different word), but you write it "the same" (so you write the right word)?

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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by navane on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:28AM (#44682912)
This just happened, while discussing my rank in a video game:

"i hit be for the first time last week, but im a mid C at best"

"be" should be "B" in this case.

(the "different" in my previous post was "strike through" in markdown with the ~~'s. That didnt come across)

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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by sebastiennight on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:48PM (#44759302)
Oh OK. I'd only seen native speakers make those kinds of substitutions before. TIL
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Re:The Number go up rule: Why America refuses to fix anything by readthenotes1 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:59PM (#44619808)
Dictated it. I really should proofread more often but it fails just enough to make that not worth my while.

I am sorry - - I will try to proofread more often. English is hard enough without having to go through homonym-like substitutions to figure out what we mean!

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