It's 2018 and people still use "of" instead of "have"
Has school stopped teaching english?
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The war have the worlds
Can you use it in a sentence? I dont know what you're referring to.
I swear to God, if I see one more kid complain about, "loosing a game", I'm going to snap.
It's grim times. I see it far too frequently. Also "past" instead of "passed" and vice versa.
I had a friend who did this. Had
I know! I'm Sick of people saying "League Of Legends" not "League Have Legends!"
I'd argue the problem is getting progressively worse as time goes forward.
The whole "it's 2018" statement is actually counterintuitive in this case.
Because 50% of the population has below average intelligence
I'd say it comes from the "'ve" on should've sounds like an "of". Hopefully people are typing it that way to talk in slang short hand, like saying "wanna" instead of want to, since this is a video game and there's no need to be extremely precise in grammar.
BUT it is totally possible think that's grammatically correct. Yikes.
english? is that a new rank?
this is whats known as "exhaustive language", which is when you force grammatical norms on a clearly evolving language. could have became contracted into could've, which then became slanged into could of. language evolves, if it didn't we'd all still be speaking Latin or Aramaic. forcing language into a bottleneck restricts language evolution. for instance. in the Japanese language, they have the honorific "-Tan" which is slang for "-Chan" which, while the norm now for impersonal relationships used to actually only be a slang for "-San". the slang "-Chan" was used so much and so commonly, that it got it's own slang in the form of "-Tan".. this is an example of an evolving language. but you could of known that if you only did research.. you should of done your research, if you had you would of know this.
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I of no idea what you're talking about.
The popular new mistake these days is to use the plural "I don't know what to do" apostrophe from acronyms (e.g. "adc's" rather than "adcs," the ambiguity of which could've been avoided with "ADCs") everywhere. For example, "I have three spoon's." It drives me crazy. Oh, and the past tense of "lead" being spelled "lead" instead of "led" (I think that one's because the present and past tense of "read" are both "read," but "lead" is a different word).
That said, everything has errors, even published works. And I don't just mean "these days," I mean always. I've been rereading some novels from 20 years ago, and errors abound, from missing commas to wrong homophones to wrong conjugations to an incomplete British-to-American conversion. I've found that the only way to see it done right is to do it myself, which I have done with various articles and a few books.
TL;DR: Get used to it. :(
I cringe whenever I see the term "Hard Stuck" or "Hard Nerf". One day they'll start to say "Hard Damage".
speak what he pleases
I mean, it's a simple mistake. I used to do it all the time until I caught myself and realized it was just me spelling it out the way it sounds when I say "should've, could've" etc. I feel like it is just something you do without realizing.
English is constantly changing. I'm sick of grammer nazis who think english was or is written in stone.