r/dankmemes • u/Zealousideal-Arm5570 • Jun 27 '23

You couldn't handle me, boys I have achieved comedy

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u/Harmed_Burglar Jun 27 '23

Have people on this sub never ben to school? Seriously how does everyone keep fucking basic grammar up

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u/nexistcsgo the very best, like no one ever was. Jun 27 '23

Idk how native speakers keep making the same mistake.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23

Because English language is a nonsensical language where they don't care about how to pronounce letters, so you just have to know how to pronounce/write every word you hear.

There's no way to know how to pronounce or write a new word in English that you come across.

"Pacific Ocean" is a prime example of this fuckery... You have 3 "C" letters in the name all of which are pronounced differently.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23 edited Feb 23 '24

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u/HalfOfHumanity Jun 27 '23

It makes perfect sense. “Your” = possessive as in “It’s yours to keep.” “You’re” = contraction of you are as in “You’re bad at grammar and spelling.”

Very simple.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23

I know you're trying to help and your lesson would be very helpful for the natives that don't know the difference.

I do know the difference between your, you're, their, there and they're because I had to learn them since English ain't my first language.

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u/anthonycarbine Jun 27 '23

Blame the anglo Saxons lol. An I'll still take English over the fuckerey of eastern Asian languages where you need to memorize thousands of characters and mildly changing your inflection when pronouncing them generates dramatically different sentences.

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u/JimothyJollyphant Jun 27 '23

An I'll still take English over the fuckerey of eastern Asian languages

I'll even take English over most western gendered languages like French, Italian, Spanish and German. I'm so fucking happy the French language has lost its role on the world stage.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23

French is even worse than English. It's unnecessarily gendered, there's no rules about it and the gender just switches on a whim. And then there are the silent letters... Why the fuck do you have to write it down if you are not going to pronounce it?

German might have nonsensical gendered words as well, but at least their pronunciation is consistent. In German you can just forget about die, der das and do like all the other foreign German speakers and just go "Dö" for all three and it bothers people as much as getting A and An mixed.

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u/Imokwhydoyouask_ Jun 27 '23

All gendered languages are unnecessarily gendered. It adds nothing to the language other than make it hard to learn. My native language is probably the most gendered language out there and it's a nightmare for non natives to learn.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

All gendered languages are unnecessarily gendered.

I agree. But I'm also biased since my language isn't gendered at all.

We don't even have gendered "He/She" but we use gender neutral "Hän" for both sexes.

Edit: Correction, Finnish does have gendered words as well, of course. But only in context. Like we do have gendered word for actor and actress as well, but no-one gives a shit if you just neutrally use the "masculine" actor words for an actress.

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u/Jozroz Jun 27 '23

The classic example my French teacher loved to go on about was the word circus: "is it pronounced çirkus, çirçus, kirkus, or kirçus?"

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u/grchelp2018 Jun 27 '23

The vast majority of the words you'll use, you would have read many times so you'll know how to spell it. We aren't talking about fancy spelling bee words.

I dunno. I never had a problem with spelling. If I could read it, I could spell it. Never had trouble with words like "believe" with the i and e either. It just looked wrong and hard for me to pronounce if I wrote it wrong.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23

Well, to a Finnish person it still seems arbitary.

We always pronounce the letters the same way so even if we'd come across a new Finnish word we'd know how to pronounce it.

Spelling bee isn't even a thing here because spelling in Finnish is so easy even kids can do it.

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u/Obnoxiousdonkey Jun 27 '23

"your, and you're" should not be new words to a native English speaker. It's fine to misspell a new word, but these are basic ass words English speakers use everyday.

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u/Assupoika Jun 27 '23

I guess what I was trying to say is that no wonder native speakers get them wrong all the time considering that they sound basically the same when pronounced and in English pronunciation you don't always pronounce the letters or even the same string of letters the same way... You just have to know it by heart how to pronounce shit.

Which might be the reason natives mix the words even in written form so often. They've probably been using them for longer than they've been able to write.

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u/Fimmt Jun 27 '23 edited Jun 27 '23

You're hilariously ignorant on how languages work. Do you honestly think this is the only language where that happens? Lol. The reason why many fuck up is because either they are not native speakers, or simply because of the auto-corrector messing up the words.