r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Upstairs_Cash8400 • 2d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Swervin69 2d 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 2d ago

Lose and loose

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u/Loldungeonleo 2d 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 2d ago edited 2d ago

Lose: the opposite of win

Loose: your mom

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u/Loldungeonleo 2d ago

damn bro why ya gotta do me like that

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u/mc17live 1d ago

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

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u/Nassiel 1d ago

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

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u/NikNakskes 2d 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 1d ago

I say “loosey goosey “ to help me remember lol

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u/alexiovay 2d ago

or people using "should of"

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u/A-KindOfMagic 2d ago edited 1d ago

Then and than bothers me a bit as an ESL.

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u/evios31 2d ago

Effect/affect

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u/angry640 2d 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 2d ago

Breath and breathe To and too

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u/Technical-Outside408 2d 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 2d ago

This is a big one for me.

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u/hec_ramsey 1d ago

Break and brake

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u/Ooblongdeck 1d ago

I lose, she's loose

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u/ElderberryPrior27648 1d ago

This one makes me angry for some reason

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u/Luxky13 1d 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/LucJenson 1d ago

"If your laces are too loose, you'll trip and lose the race."

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u/WhyUFuckinLyin I'm FUHRIOUS 19h ago

Your and you're

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u/bioticspacewizard 2d ago

Rogue and rouge

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u/ElTortugo 1d ago

Gose and goose