There’s a certain irony in complaining about improper grammar while speaking in fragmented sentences. Why is it bad to omit “of” but not “There’s a” like you did?
Nikki up there was lampooning me by suggesting that there was nothing wrong with missing a “couple words now and then” in order to humorously goad me for my previous statement about missing the word “of” in front of the word “couple”
My riposte, as dull as it were, was to insinuate that they’d used the wrong “then/than”, thus harking back to the original subject of the admittedly pointless comment chain
But well done you for spotting the deliberate error, and my condolences for the difficulties you must encounter daily with your reading comprehension 😊
I stand corrected. I apologize for not paying more attention towards usernames, assuming that you’re a completely different entity and making that dumb remark.
I’m a native English speaker. Honestly… who cares? We can still understand them just fine. Do you speak four+ languages like they do? I studied a second language for 10 years in school and barely remember it. I self-studied a third for a couple of years and it’s HARD. What in the world do they have to be guilty for? Being way better at being multilingual than the average native English speaker?
I obviously care. There is also nothing wrong with having pet peeves. Zero people need to agree with what my pet peeves are allowed to be. I see this dumb mistake all the time and that’s not really related to the linguistic status of this one individual.
Sure, have your pet peeves. That’s perfectly fine. However, making someone feel bad about it and implying they should feel guilty, when they’ve already made a huge accomplishment in learning another language, isn’t. You’re not wrong, but you’re still an asshole.
I would disagree with your assessment of this. If I implied they should feel bad, it was for guilting me with information I couldn’t have known and wasn’t at all personal
I know it’s not the point but Jesus fucking Christ then is not than. How fucking hard is it to notice that they’re two different words?
Direct correlation between people that use “then” instead of “than”, and people who don’t use “of” after “couple”
Laziness and ignorance
Edit - the same people that say LaNgUagE iS alWAyS eVolViNg 😂
There’s a certain irony in complaining about improper grammar while speaking in fragmented sentences. Why is it bad to omit “of” but not “There’s a” like you did?
It is.
Yeah and people who say “could of” instead of “could have”. Writing is not just mimicking sounds you make out loud but they don’t seem to know it
Eh, what’s wrong with omitting a couple words now and then 😝
*than
It’s actually then*, learn yourself before correcting others.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/every-now-and-then
Nikki up there was lampooning me by suggesting that there was nothing wrong with missing a “couple words now and then” in order to humorously goad me for my previous statement about missing the word “of” in front of the word “couple”
My riposte, as dull as it were, was to insinuate that they’d used the wrong “then/than”, thus harking back to the original subject of the admittedly pointless comment chain
But well done you for spotting the deliberate error, and my condolences for the difficulties you must encounter daily with your reading comprehension 😊
I stand corrected. I apologize for not paying more attention towards usernames, assuming that you’re a completely different entity and making that dumb remark.
Idk maybe not everyone has a first language of english and had english lessons.
Like english is literally my fourth best spoken language. And I’m disabked with cognitive issues.
The vast, vast majority of these simple mistakes are native speakers
ESL speakers know better
Guilt, much? Then = marks a condition or a point in time. Than = comparison.
I’m a native English speaker. Honestly… who cares? We can still understand them just fine. Do you speak four+ languages like they do? I studied a second language for 10 years in school and barely remember it. I self-studied a third for a couple of years and it’s HARD. What in the world do they have to be guilty for? Being way better at being multilingual than the average native English speaker?
I obviously care. There is also nothing wrong with having pet peeves. Zero people need to agree with what my pet peeves are allowed to be. I see this dumb mistake all the time and that’s not really related to the linguistic status of this one individual.
Sure, have your pet peeves. That’s perfectly fine. However, making someone feel bad about it and implying they should feel guilty, when they’ve already made a huge accomplishment in learning another language, isn’t. You’re not wrong, but you’re still an asshole.
I would disagree with your assessment of this. If I implied they should feel bad, it was for guilting me with information I couldn’t have known and wasn’t at all personal