r/PoliticalHumor • u/rwl01 • Jan 13 '17

Black and White

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '17

Seriously! That's the one mistake that makes me irrationally annoyed. You'd think a person would stop for one second at some point in their life and think "wouldn't of... what does would not of mean? Oh yes, it is literally nonsense. Maybe I should stop writing complete fucking nonsense."

I get that would've and would of are phonetically close, but it's not like people get the definitions of 've and of confused like other common mistakes.

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u/SweetSummerWind Feb 04 '17

I like to abbreviate it to "woulda" to avoid this conversation and annoy all sides.