This was in Lemmy world politics.

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    So excluding people due to a potential: innocent mistake, minor lack of knowledge, language difference (as simple as UK vs US English, and or different spelling from a different language you might speak. Either way, if you look it up, the spelling you used is not uncommon, it’s even used in some MSM reports and documentaries), learning and or one of many other disabilities, shit device.

    And they say we create echo chambers when we want to get away from such bullshit.

    https://medium.com/no-prescription-needed/grammar-the-worlds-most-under-recognized-social-construct-a54e096ecc9c

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      The fancy name for that is “linguistic prejudice”. It’s as old as language, and deeply ingrained in human societies, and it’s typically subconscious - like, you don’t even know why you don’t like a certain feature, until you try to find which groups use it.

      With that said, if I saw someone spell “palastinian” I’d expect the person to be an English monolingual. Native speakers tend to remember words by their spoken form (non-native ones often do it by the written form), and /ə/ can be represented by ⟨a⟩ or ⟨e⟩ there anyway.

      I love the link by the way. Good example of the issue.