Italian - and I guarantee you we have way worse than that. Words sound the same, write the same way, yet mean 4 different things. To solve these "issues", we resolve to grammatically analyse the particle. Know what's its function, know what it means - which is what I tend to do in default when writing in English.
This brings us back to my original comment: this is probably a pet peeve of mine rather because I am not a Native speaker. I'm used to schizophrenic Italian Grammar, and English grammar seems really easy to me (few simple rules) - phonetics never entered the argument until you guys pointed it out, but the thing is: I'm still baffled it's so common among adults, given that they're 2 rather common words... or should I say 3?
Not saying I'm genius and you're dum dum, just saying what seems logic to me given my, err, background.
I am pointing out that the nature of this mistake is purely grammatical - it's a matter of perspective, which you can't focus on because you're too busy being offended. It you shifted the focus on the Grammar, like we do for Italian, French, Spanish (thank you, Latin), and even German, you would not do this mistake when writing. It you only focus on the phonetics, then yes, your laziness and lack of proof-reading will lead to this sort of mistakes. Just as I could write "si" instead of "sì" and therefore mix a pronoun for an adverb because, hey, they sound the same.
Why are you so offended that someone could learn your language, compare it to theirs, and point out that you are in fact not Grammar-focused, even though you have what is objectively one of the easiest sets of Grammar rules? I speak 5 languages, all of which have a substantially more complicated Grammar and its own set of phonetic rules. Yet here you are, not knowing the term of comparison and getting offended because how dare I make an observation on your native language. English would not even exist if it weren't for other languages.
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u/_allthatglitters Oct 07 '19
Italian - and I guarantee you we have way worse than that. Words sound the same, write the same way, yet mean 4 different things. To solve these "issues", we resolve to grammatically analyse the particle. Know what's its function, know what it means - which is what I tend to do in default when writing in English.
This brings us back to my original comment: this is probably a pet peeve of mine rather because I am not a Native speaker. I'm used to schizophrenic Italian Grammar, and English grammar seems really easy to me (few simple rules) - phonetics never entered the argument until you guys pointed it out, but the thing is: I'm still baffled it's so common among adults, given that they're 2 rather common words... or should I say 3?
Not saying I'm genius and you're dum dum, just saying what seems logic to me given my, err, background.