• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    22 hours ago

    Amusingly, I’m a native English speaker who can keep their and they’re apart. I’m not English though. I’m American.

    Fuck you Brits. I can say “y’all” and while also properly separating “there”, “their” and “they’re” (it’s a subtle difference but I can feel the difference in the way I pronounce them).

    Git rekt.

    Edit: I’m being a silly, dumbass USAmeri-cunt because it helps me cope with reality (please help ;~;). That said, I absolutely do occasionally seperate the pronunciation of there, their, and they’re; but it also tends to be context-sensitive.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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      22 hours ago

      Oh, where from America are you? Argentina? Bolivia? Canada?

      Jokes aside, I met enough 'muricans online who can’t differentiate between “there”, “their” and “they’re”. And even worse, every single person I read “would of” from was from the US.