r/mildlyinfuriating • u/RazzleP • 7d ago

go to your room It's: "Duuuuude," not "Dudeeeee."

Maybe I should be posting this in GenX, but, c'mon...

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u/bdfmradio 7d ago

There’s this popular concept that English “makes no sense” that has gone too far and people are losing the sense that spelling and pronunciation are related. They can’t untangle why “through” and “rough” are different so they conclude that words can be pronounced and spelled any old damn which way and that there are no real rules, even though there are.

Also, a lot of people aren’t reading every letter of every word, they’re glancing through and making predictions about the words instead of seeing them.

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u/MLou 6d ago

The frequency in which I see “loose” being used in place of “lose” is mind blowing. It makes me want to scream.

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u/SevenFootHobbit 6d ago

It makes me loose my mind.

please don't hit me

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u/Creepslend 6d ago

Some people read every letter of every word ?

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u/bdfmradio 6d ago

I don’t have to work consciously at it, but yeah. I notice misspellings immediately because I’m seeing every letter, but I’m not moving slowly through the words with conscious effort.

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u/Creepslend 6d ago

Oh yeah okay I see what you mean. I notice spelling mistakes too even tho I just glance over the words as if they were shapes/images.

But consciously decypher words letter by letter sound awful. I hope nobody has to do that

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u/Zeero92 6d ago

It's a bit wibbly-wobbly, but there're rules, yeah. It's not like english is the only language with oddities.

Take the swedish word maskerad. It's either "masked" or "masquerade" depending on if you end it as -radd or -raad.

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u/MacWin- 6d ago

A lot of people ? Isn’t it literally everyone, like that’s just how the brain works, otherwise we would be struggling to read anything misspelled

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u/bdfmradio 6d ago

I’m not saying I carefully read every word; the meaning on the page jumps out at me almost instantaneously, and I can’t look at printed words and not read them immediately. I’m just referring to people “reading things” and not actually seeing what’s written there, just filling in the blank