• Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
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    Indeed. I literally never use the word “than”. Fuck grammar, “than” looks weird.

    I never say “than”, I say “then”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

    Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?

    Edit: I’m concerned for everyone who upvoted this

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          I’m not really ignorant if I know I am using bad grammar. I know it’s wrong I just do it anyways. That makes me stupid, not ignorant

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        If it was an actual formal writing I would use proper grammar but other then (oh man what do I do here) that I never really use than.

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          Hilarious when people want to resort to “I WASN’T WRITING FORMALLY” in these situations. Just take the L and acknowledge it was a flub. Much less cringe that way.

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          Lol it’s not grammar, you’ve used an entirely different word that just sounds kinda similar. You’re essentially saying the actual words used don’t matter in these two sentences because they sound similar:

          I like to wear t-shirts

          Eye lick two where tea-shits

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      It’s not grammar it’s an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.

      Edit - you know what, I’m leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.

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        I laterally never use the word “entirely”. Fuck grandma, “entirely” looks weird.

        I never say “entirely”, I say “entitlement”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

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      Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn’t laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.

      Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.

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        We write our language (swiss-german) like this 😂 everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.

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          I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

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            Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write “do” I mean it is not a normal spoken “o” and not exactly a “u” like it is a “u” but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔

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                Fair 😆and expectable, since I normally write phonetic in the german way