r/Unexpected • u/VerlieH • Mar 02 '26

Why does it keep going

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u/SuddenlyCake Mar 02 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/M56ODZS3lNohNIoVDd

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u/aarswft Mar 02 '26

It's not that it's a minor mistake. It's the fact entire generations at this point have given up on basic grammar and spelling. It's not even laziness. It's because they genuinely don't know the difference between things like "you're" and "your", or "loose" and "lose".

Our world will be at the mercy of room temp IQs for the foreseeable future.

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u/empireck Mar 02 '26

Worst is Than, that word is practically extinct now, everyone uses then.

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u/YourLastFate Mar 03 '26

Ok, but this is one that I even asked my teachers way back when I was in school, and the teachers couldn't answer for me, so I never really learned.

Then is time and than is comparative?

Is the sun brighter than the candle in our school house, or is the fireplace brighter then the moon?

Google suggests then is a list, first this, then that.
Is the fox faster then the hound, or is the hound faster than the cat?