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Topic	As a non English native speaker, there is one thing I don't get
averagejoel 09/01/17 11:49:26 AM #9:	Questionmarktarius posted... Because, language was sound long before it was written. Homophones are indistinct when spoken, and there's some sort of assumption that the same applies to text. That's why effect/affect are consistently misused, why your/you're and their/there/they're are treated as interchangeable, and why nobody seems to know how to spell "segue" or "voila" among others, and why the Grocer's Apostrophe persists. well, in the case of "segue", the motorized personal scooter thing obfuscates --- peanut butter and dick <cite>averagejoel posted [p:885840009] in As a non E... [t:75730641]...</cite> <quote><cite>Questionmarktarius posted...</cite> <quote>Because, language was sound long before it was written. Homophones are indistinct when spoken, and there's some sort of assumption that the same applies to text. That's why effect/affect are consistently misused, why your/you're and their/there/they're are treated as interchangeable, and why nobody seems to know how to spell "segue" or "voila" among others, and why the Grocer's Apostrophe persists.</quote> well, in the case of "segue", the motorized personal scooter thing obfuscates --- peanut butter and dick</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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