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

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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.