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[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Confuses to, two and too.

Also their, there and they're

[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Dyslexia hell though

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I tend to agree. But even though I have a degree in English literature and creative writing, and have worked as a journalist and editor, I still have a few things that I routinely mess up. My thing is: sometimes a word gets double letters in certain forms. Run / running. Got / gotten. But this doesn’t always happen. Walk / walking. There are however some forms of some words where I can’t remember what is correct to do. I’ve gotten it wrong and been corrected. I’ve gotten it right and second guessed myself. Both of those have happened so many times that I can no longer keep it all straight.

So I have some compassion perhaps for people who screw up to/too because they’re caught in a false mneumonic dilemma. (There’s a good example of my trouble with double letters, by the way - I always type “dilemma”).

I swear in some cases it’s more of a pathology and less just mere ignorance.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Many moons ago I had an old high school classmate add me on Facebook. They listed their religious beliefs as "Too each there own".

[–] Mika7150@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

come on! that's two mean! their not doing anything wrong they're

this hurt to type

[–] MrNemobody@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's they're choice.