Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you're or there/their/they're. I'm curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
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native speakers cannot by definition make systematic errors. they cannot make "common mistakes". if a thing is common, that's the correct way to say it. so what do you mean? spelling mistakes? (spelling is a separate thing from language)
I don't agree.
For example, in English it's a common mistake to write "it's" instead of "its". Example: "The car is missing its mirror". I've seen countless of times people writing, incorrectly, "the car is missing it's mirror".
It's still a mistake even if native speaker do it, and it's pretty common.
that's a spelling mistake, which is an entirely different kettle of fish
"ATM machine" is an error and hard descriptivism does not save you
lol no. why would it be an error? if that's how people say it, that's what it's called.
what does the M stand for?
why do you think that matters? what actually matters is how people use language. admittedly, this also involves studying people like you who have weird ideas about language.
if you just listen to people, you'll find that they use this phrase to talk about atm machines. that's all that is required. it doesnt matter if you think the name for a thing was derived through a process you personally dont like. it's still a name for a thing that is in common use and understood by people.
oh, also, do you think the "river avon" is also wrong? why or why not?