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Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy? (infosec.pub)

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

In Swedish people often confuse de/dem(they/them kind of) and I honestly don't know exactly when to differentiate. You often learn to replace the word with another like vi/oss(we/us) to see if the sentence still sounds good and then you know the form you should use

[–] 404 6 points 1 year ago

And even worse, using personal pronouns exclusively in subject form, e.g. "till han" ("to he") instead of in object form where suitable, e.g. "till honom" ("to him").

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