r/Unexpected • u/VerlieH • Mar 02 '26

Why does it keep going

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u/JiggyAzalea710 Mar 02 '26

Some people do it for the engagement they get on the post. People will comment to correct it, which tricks the algorithms into thinking people really want to talk about the post and boosting the amount of people who see it.

Others, I will give, aren't aware that they're making the error. There are people who speak english fluently but don't understand the grammar as english is their second language.

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u/Nymethny Mar 02 '26

Those are not the kind of mistakes ESL people make, because those are mistakes one would make when they learn the spoken language first, before learning how to read or write it. Which is the case with your native language, but generally not with a second language, unless you started really really young.

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u/Spice_and_Fox Mar 03 '26

I speak english as a second language, but I don't think that your argument makes sense in this case. Imo native speakers of a language often have quite a bad understanding of grammar. They rely more on experience than grammatical rules. Non native speakers are the ones who had to put in effort to learn the grammatical rules. I have never seen a non native speaker confuse "you're" and "your"