What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/193/ (link found by BunScientist@lemmy.zip)) Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 days ago

    Pretty much only native speakers have problems with this

    That makes no sense since they would use it more, however native speakers from the US do have problems with it, and other words (they’re/their).

    Rarely encounter it with others.
    Their spelling is embarrassing, same as their very limited vocabulary. IDK what they do in schools.

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      41·
      3 days ago

      Native speakers acquire the language before learning to read. Remember, writing is a representation of spoken language not the other way round.

      • bigfondue@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        No it is. People were speaking for tens of thousands of years before they started writing. Modern people see the written word as more valid than spoken, but it’s a historical quirk that words pronounced identically should be spelled differently in English. Words that are spelled differently in English were once pronounced differently as well, but languages change and our spelling system is frozen in the 1600s.

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
          21·
          3 days ago

          Modern people are the written word as more valid than spoken

          Now there’s a sentence I can’t make sense of.

          There is no influence of history in when kids learn to write their language or if they used it orally, they learn to write it then how it’s supposed to be written.
          If your reasons were valid every Anglo would have problems, they don’t.
          Since it’s noticably the US specifically I can only assume it’s sub standard education.
          As confirmed by their poor vocabulary compared to other Anglo’s