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Originally Posted by SexSearchSuzanne
Another thread reminded me of probably my biggest pet peeve, people using the 's when it is not possessive. Like "I am going to visit the website's." "I am going to buy some apple's."
I was thinking of the ESL thing after reading this thread. We don't want to scare away people whose first language is not English. If it is obvious they are ESL then a typo doesn't bother me. It's when people who obviously grew up speaking English make basic mistakes constantly that it drives me crazy and I wonder what went wrong.
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I totally agree with you. The worst part is that most of the stupid mistakes made here, are made by people with English as their first (and most likely only) language.
The misuse of "then" and "than" are probably the mistakes, I see on GFY almost daily.
With ESL people, you might get something like a wrong tense or bad use of a preposition, but again that is understandable, as most of us did not grow up writing in English. The mistakes that we see here every day; are most likely from English speakers that just canīt be bothered to spell right.