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"once a women turns 19, she may as well be postmenopausal" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 6 months ago by Justas@sh.itjust.works to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 points 6 months ago (5 children)

People misspelling 'woman' annoys the hell out of me. It's literally 'man' prefixed by 'wo'. I don't know what bizarre process could lead to using 'women' instead. And it's nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That and "should of" should be punishable by getting your hand cut off.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their not the only ones who should be punished!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

I'd rather stub my toe then see such simple mistakes

[–] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Read: "head cut off" and agreed. Sry for that.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The difference is that one is singular and one is plural. "Theres a group of women" and "Theres a singlular woman"

People do often get the usage wrong but its not being misspelled.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

I recall a particular time period in early-ish smartphone history when the stupid thing tried to correct every instance of woman in my emails to "roman" for some weird reason so that one might just be auto-correct gone stupid again.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

And it's nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

Nah, it's not that deep--tons of men and women make this particular mistake (writing "women" when intending to use the singular "woman") for some bizarre reason. I've observed this phenomenon for well over a decade. Notably, I've never really seen someone write "woman" when they mean "women", only the other direction. And never with man/men at all. Very odd, specific error.

Maybe it's a "should of"-type mistake, I can only guess. But what I know for sure is that it's a very common mistake, and almost certainly unintentional.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 months ago

I feel like this image has more to be upset about than misnumbering the word woman.