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carmium t1_j6y5rc5 wrote

Reply to comment by mltain in Better to try and fail then wonder “what if?” [image] by the_internet_clown

Don't mean to be picky, but why do so few people seem to know the difference between then and than? I didn't realize it was epidemic before becoming a Reddit regular.

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Plus_Chapter_5511 t1_j6y9lo2 wrote

*Endemic

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carmium t1_j6yaysh wrote

Better word. I just thought people used to know, and are somehow getting infected with misuse!

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UNFAM1L1AR t1_j6yy85c wrote

It doesn't bother me as much as people that confuse worse and worst. "That car is the worse" ... or even in combinations lmfao "this car is worst then that one"

Worst is superlative, the highest value. Worse is comparative, so almost always goes with THAN... Those cars are always worse than these ones.

I swear it kills me.

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BananaParadise t1_j6z0nfs wrote

Also phase vs faze. So many ppl use “this doesn’t phase me” instead of faze smh

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carmium t1_j6zdw1m wrote

Be grateful your brain listens for one malapropism! There are so many out there that I'm always wondering how many people slid through school with Ds because their teachers were too frustrated to insist on decent English.

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beeetbeez t1_j6zayei wrote

Id say... multilingual people might have some difficulty....

But also, some idiots don't know how to write even their main language **Comme moi **

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kinglyhoo t1_j70k4qv wrote

Knowing the difference and being immune to typos are two different things

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carmium t1_j7105gs wrote

They are. And if a person types "thdn" I'm not going to say a word, because I've done dumber typos than that myself. But when many people born to English don't know the difference between a word for next, consequently, or at a certain time and a comparison term used with words like larger, greener, sleeker, and even dumber, it makes me shake my head.

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