• teft@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    A lot of people aren’t native speakers and also this is an easy error to make even for native speakers.

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      16 hours ago

      i’ve heard native speakers are actually more prone to misusing apostrophes because they learned the sounds before writing, while non natives learn both at the same time

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      2 days ago

      It’s not a mistake native speakers would make unintentionally but I absolutely understand the ESL problems and, full disclosure, still have to remind myself about the rules for possessives.

      It looks wrong and the system is wrong I will not apologize for or be bound by the failures of dead dudes