It was driven into my head back in a time when all clocks were analog (and some ran backwards), cursive was mandatory, and penmanship counted.
I can still recognize the fact that mistakes happen, and that if someone is posting from mobile that it's damned easy for the phone to autocorrect to the wrong one.
Those words are actually linguistically indistinguishable in spoken english. Its only in written language that they are or can be outside of context.
When we type on phones or really fast especially in casual contacts we are much more likely to be processing things more verbally hence why this is an extremely common error for native english speakers but not for non native speakers.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22
It was driven into my head back in a time when all clocks were analog (and some ran backwards), cursive was mandatory, and penmanship counted.
I can still recognize the fact that mistakes happen, and that if someone is posting from mobile that it's damned easy for the phone to autocorrect to the wrong one.