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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know about the person who made this picture, but I'm ESL, and this is actually weird phenomenon to me.

Basically when I first was learning the language I had zero problems with it, and never made mistake, but after two decades I noticed I started making those mistakes too.

I still know when to use each and will fix it when reading what I wrote and looking for it, but when I'm just writing I sometimes write incorrectly.

I wonder if it is that I switched from remembering it visually to going by sound or maybe reading text written by other people who also make this mistake.

[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm ESL too. Maybe it's easier learning the writing rules as you learn the language. But even so, I find astonishing the amount of times "it's" is improperly used. I mean, it's not some obscure gramar rule (like say knowing when to use who/whom).