• Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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    12 days ago

    Please remember that everyone here isn’t a native English speaker and neither does everyone use English in professional writing.

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          12 days ago

          Because they’re just writing as they speak, whereas someone who learned English later in life should have a greater understanding that these are different words. I believe I’ve read about it before.

          Here’s a quick and dirty link to a discussion on the same topic.

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            12 days ago

            Okay, guess that’s one explanatio n. It just doesn’t fit with what I see (as someone whose studied English for ~6 years). People in my class still confuse “you’re” and “your” quite frequently.