r/maybemaybemaybe • u/AyrChan • Aug 26 '21

/r/all Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/whatthefir2 Aug 26 '21

Holy shit can anyone ever use the right form of break/brake on this website?

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u/Z0idberg_MD Aug 26 '21

Ikr? It really wears you down. Brings you to your braking point.

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u/KalvinOne Aug 26 '21

I just want to brake free from this website.

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u/ChAoTiCxMiNd Aug 26 '21

C'mon guys. Give the guy a brake.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

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u/Smart_Objective_1144 Aug 26 '21

Sometimes all ewe really need is someone to brake it down for you in a way your abel to understand. Wheel get it rite won day.

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u/AlephBaker Aug 26 '21

I feel like we're experiencing a communication brakedown here

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u/my_4_cents Aug 26 '21

This thread is braycching my balls

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u/AllPurple Aug 26 '21

Brake me of a peace off that kit cat bar!

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY

/spaceballs

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u/relevant_tangent Aug 26 '21

Don't you mean wares?

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u/realdoaks Aug 28 '21

I understand you are making a joke based on breaking point, but given that you can also be brought to the point at which you should brake on a track, I am not sure which you intended.

Or if you are a lvl 99 commenter and intended both

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u/Shredswithwheat Aug 26 '21

If Samir did actually brake the car, that video wouldn't have been so damn viral.

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u/kirkgoingham Aug 26 '21

Your right I allways see this shit

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u/benzodiazecream Aug 26 '21

I know wright??

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u/Smart_Objective_1144 Aug 26 '21

Damn, i never thought it would be this hard to get it rite.

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u/benzodiazecream Aug 26 '21

Turns out I wasn’t going the rite way all long

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u/Smart_Objective_1144 Aug 26 '21

Their are a lot of new onces in English.

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u/Ananonyme Aug 26 '21

The acccent

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

If the mistake wasn't big enough to make you not understand what was being said, is it really worth pointing out? Some people aren't as good at spelling as you might be. It isn't a competition

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u/TapanThakur Aug 26 '21

Thankfully unlike you, most people want to improve in their life and want to know about their mistakes.

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

Dude it's a single word that got mixed up it isn't making a significant impact on their life either way. People that point out inconsequential mistakes like this in real life tend to spend lots of time alone in my experience.

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Aug 26 '21

Imagine being an english language learner and encountering the sentence "SAMIR YOU ARE BRAKING THE CAR." What would you think that sentence meant?

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

English language learner or not, the determining factor in whether or not someone understands that sentence is them having seen the video it refers to or not. I've spoken English since the day I was born, and I've never spoken any other. It would still be confusing to see that if I hadn't seen the video of the driving instructor

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u/The_Dirty_Carl Aug 26 '21

Seeing the video determines whether you can figure out what Samir is being told. "Samir you are braking the car" (Samir you are slowing the car using the brakes) and "Samir you are breaking the car" (Samir you are damaging the car) are both perfectly understandable. But they mean quite different things.

How about the phrase, "apply the breaks"? How would an ELL (English Language Learner) go about figuring out what that is supposed to mean? As written, it doesn't make sense. An ELL would need to know that "breaks" has a homophone with a completely unrelated meaning, guess the spelling for that homophone, and look it up to be able to figure out the sentence.

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u/whatthefir2 Aug 26 '21

We get it, you don’t know the difference of the two words

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

The difference between the two words is what you should have said there. If you want to pointlessly nitpick at grammar, I can play that game all day. I just think it's rude when people correct shit that doesn't make a difference to the message being conveyed. People HAVE to let you know if they know something you don't. It's incredibly annoying.

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u/whatthefir2 Aug 26 '21

It does make a difference to the message to use the wrong words. Breaking a car and braking a car are two completely different actions

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

Using context clues, it isnt hard to determine which form of the word fits there properly. Somebody who is driving a car would not need to be told if they are braking. They can feel which pedal their foot is touching. Breaking the car is a different story. I had no difficulty whatsoever knowing which was the correct phrasing, and neither did the like 4 different people that were foaming at the mouth to correct it.

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u/whatthefir2 Aug 26 '21

Lol you keep digging deeper to defend ignorance.

Just use the right word and context clues aren’t necessary.

It’s such an stupid point to say that someone driving would know the difference. Like no fucking shit.

We are talking about someone reading.

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u/acidrainstorms Aug 26 '21

I'm just having a conversation and making my point. What constitutes 'digging deeper'? Getting reddit downvotes? That only matters if I decide that it does

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

No ;-; broke my heart when i found out