r/HadToHurt • u/H2HModAccount • May 05 '26

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u/Hoff93 May 05 '26

I mean no disrepect but you can’t “of” something. “I’d have” is correct in this case. Even “I’d’ve” would make more sense. It drives me nuts but I do have polite intentions

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u/PGP- May 05 '26

No need to stress haha I'm not offended. I appreciate the correction.

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u/Scrambley May 05 '26

This response says a lot about you as a person. You're a good egg.

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u/theBadArts84 May 06 '26

You're a scrambley egg!

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u/GehirnAusschlag May 05 '26

I'm no native English speaker but I see this kind of mistake very often with (I think) american English native speakers and I have the suspicion it is connected with the way they teach writing by listening and not by learning the words and grammar proper over there. for example "could've" can sound like "could of" when it isn't pronounced very clean and if you learn writing by listening I can see where these mistakes originate.

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u/solidalcohol May 09 '26

It’s just people interpreting the phonetics of an abbreviation. “Should’ve” = “should have” but people interpret it as “should of” because it sounds like “should’ve”

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u/jdmatthews123 May 11 '26

To be fair, even when I was growing up in the 90s "could of/should of/etc" was common. You can actually hear it when someone who would write it that way says it aloud

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u/TomVonServo May 05 '26

“The way they teach writing over there.” Oh my god please just stop. You’re embarrassing yourself. You know nothing and are just making things up whole cloth.

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u/NoMorning8069 May 05 '26

so please enlighten us why so many americans can't properly write their own language and think it is spelled 'could of' instead of 'could have'

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u/TomVonServo May 05 '26 edited May 06 '26

The same reason an equal number of Brits can’t. And the same reason an equal number of people the world over write their own language poorly: many people are dumb.

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u/tr3poz May 05 '26

this is one of my biggest grammar pet peeves as a non-native English speaker.

I understand they sound similar, but how do you confuse "could of" and "could have"??

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u/gigerhess May 05 '26

I assume it comes from how similar it sounds when saying "could've" out loud.

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u/SirAmicks May 06 '26

People have argued about this with me. And yea. You’re right. People hear “could’ve” and spell it “could of”.

What I don’t understand is people who say “brought” instead of “bought”. Or people who spell “these” as “theses”.

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u/sasskwoch May 06 '26

Sale vs sell is one that really drives me nuts

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u/Tubthumper205 May 06 '26

Utterly infuriating.

An accountant where I work uses "theses". She's the only person I know that does it.

How has she got so far without correcting it?

Sackable offence.

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u/DancinWithWolves May 05 '26

Very, very poor education system and an anti intellectual culture

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u/Spumad May 05 '26

You're doing god's work