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Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

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[โ€“] glorkon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse "it's" and "its", "their", "they're" and "there" and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I'm a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they're cool with that.

[โ€“] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

although its incorrect, i'd say their are better things to worry about

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wouldnt your "their" be actually "there"?