• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Non-native English speakers usually don’t make such mistakes. Natives write “by ear” (which is how you initially learn your first language), so they can mix up homophonic words, whereas non-natives usually learned to write at the same time as they learned to speak the language, and they also had the rules and words explained 100% explicitly from the start.