r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Upstairs_Cash8400 • 1d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Swervin69 1d ago

Don’t feel bad beginners, fluent speakers still don’t know how to tell their, there, and they’re apart.

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u/ciopobbi 1d ago

Lose and loose

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u/Loldungeonleo 21h ago

I know the difference between the 2 and still messed it up in a different sub like 20min ago.

Lose: You no longer have something

Loose: Something is barely attached

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u/save_the_winos 21h ago edited 21h ago

Lose: the opposite of win

Loose: your mom

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u/Loldungeonleo 21h ago

damn bro why ya gotta do me like that

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u/mc17live 5h ago

He didn't.. he did your mom like that..

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u/Nassiel 12h ago

Maybe, I'll remember now, say thanks to your mom!

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u/NikNakskes 20h ago

And how to remember this: loose has two o because it is stretched out, lose has one o because it lost the extra stretchy one.

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u/Bagel-Bite-Me 11h ago

I say “loosey goosey “ to help me remember lol

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u/alexiovay 21h ago

or people using "should of"

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u/A-KindOfMagic 15h ago edited 8h ago

Then and than bothers me a bit as an ESL.

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u/evios31 17h ago

Effect/affect

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u/angry640 15h ago

Weather whether, Then than, bare bear, Insight incite, Hole whole, Flower flour, Apparently they are called homophones as in "words that sound the same but mean different things"

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u/daFancyPants 17h ago

Breath and breathe To and too

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u/Technical-Outside408 19h ago

I hate it so much. There is such a dissonance between the sounds those two make. It's awful.

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE 13h ago

This is a big one for me.

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u/hec_ramsey 10h ago

Break and brake

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u/Ooblongdeck 10h ago

I lose, she's loose

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u/ElderberryPrior27648 9h ago

This one makes me angry for some reason

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u/Luxky13 7h ago

This one irrationally annoys me, but easy mistake to make I guess. I noticed a thesis dissertation I was reading for my essay made the same mistake

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u/bioticspacewizard 13h ago

Rogue and rouge

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u/ElTortugo 9h ago

Gose and goose