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For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you're or there/their/they're. I'm curious about similar mistakes in other languages.

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[-] huf@hexbear.net -4 points 1 year ago

native speakers cannot by definition make systematic errors. they cannot make "common mistakes". if a thing is common, that's the correct way to say it. so what do you mean? spelling mistakes? (spelling is a separate thing from language)

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago

I don't agree.

For example, in English it's a common mistake to write "it's" instead of "its". Example: "The car is missing its mirror". I've seen countless of times people writing, incorrectly, "the car is missing it's mirror".

It's still a mistake even if native speaker do it, and it's pretty common.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago

that's a spelling mistake, which is an entirely different kettle of fish

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