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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    I believe that it’s more used in dialects spoken in Brazil than elsewhere, but even in Brazil it’s considered poor grammar. Specially given that both nós conjugations* and the synthetic future** are falling into disuse, so it sounds like trying to speak fancy and failing hard at it.

    EDIT: now it clicked me why you likely said so; it’s common in European dialects to use “a enviar” (gerundive infinitive) instead of “enviando” (traditional gerund). The phenomenon that I’m talking about can be used with either, e.g. “estaremos a enviar”; for me it’s the same issue, people would say “estaremos a enviar” instead of “enviaremos” to throw the event into a distant future that might never happen.

    *they’re still fairly used by older people in speech, but there’s a clear gen gap with younger folks using “a gente” almost exclusively.

    **almost completely replaced by conjugated ir + infinitive.