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    Quote Originally Posted by Elite Ferret View Post
    What I mean is that people write either 'there' or 'their' when the correct word to use would be 'they're'. I assume this is because they all sound the same.
    They don't actually sound the same in most dialects. Their and There are inflected slightly differently, They're is actually pronounced very differently.
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    Here they are all said exactly the same

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    Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
    They don't actually sound the same in most dialects. Their and There are inflected slightly differently, They're is actually pronounced very differently.
    Yeah, english contractions used to drive my German friends nuts. Especially when speaking with fast-talking northern americans.

    "They're moving their camp over there.", spoken aloud with my Michigan accent = sounds identical, though I admit "they're" should have a longer "ay" sound in the middle to recognize the 'ey' of they.

    "Of" is another one that confuses. 'Should've', 'would've', could've' get written as should of, would of & could of, because of the similar sound. Drives me crazy.
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    Imho English grammar is incredibly straightforward and easy. German and French are much more complicated.

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    Imho English grammar is incredibly straightforward and easy. German and French are much more complicated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    Male Chairs and Female Tables.

    Why did they need to give everything a gender?
    In English I think chairs are weak-feminine, but I'd have to check. We lost inflection after the Normans arrived (ironically).
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    Well, English technically isn't my first language, but it's the one I'm most fluent in.

    I know all the grammar, but ignore certain rules either for ease of use or because I just disagree with them.

    I sometimes devolve into an Eastern-Europeanish accent when aggravated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post
    Yeah, english contractions used to drive my German friends nuts. Especially when speaking with fast-talking northern americans.

    "They're moving their camp over there.", spoken aloud with my Michigan accent = sounds identical, though I admit "they're" should have a longer "ay" sound in the middle to recognize the 'ey' of they.

    "Of" is another one that confuses. 'Should've', 'would've', could've' get written as should of, would of & could of, because of the similar sound. Drives me crazy.
    All of this really shows that you should not use contractions. "Should'of" is grammatically nonsensical, but it is the most common mistake children make both speaking and writing. You really have to make sure they don't get the two confused, or it can mean a lifetime of error.

    I have an unfair advantage over pretty much everyone in the world though, I have a clerkly (i.e. educated, not posh) Hampshire/Surrey accent; more or less the defnition of "Standard English".
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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan View Post

    "Of" is another one that confuses. 'Should've', 'would've', could've' get written as should of, would of & could of, because of the similar sound. Drives me crazy.
    And pronounced "shoulda woulda coulda"

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    me speak right. yall just wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centurion1 View Post
    me speak right. yall'r jus' wrong
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    I'm Chinese. Just imagine the transfer between phonetic and character-based......

    I also speak a bit of French, Spanish, and German. English, with no genders for words, is unbelievably simple. Of course, we have to balance that out with absurd pronounciation.
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