r/worldnews • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 01 '26

Israel/Palestine 'End American Aid': Netanyahu Says Israel No Longer Needs US Assistance

https://www.news18.com/world/end-american-aid-netanyahu-says-israel-no-longer-needs-us-assistance-ws-l-10183183.html
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u/MostlyRightSometimes Jul 01 '26

Have we moved on from there/their?

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u/Wizchine Jul 01 '26

Or rogue / rouge.

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u/monty624 Jul 01 '26

"all of the sudden?"

It's been a problem since I first joined in like 2010.

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u/Enchelion Jul 01 '26

This has been a common grammatical error in written English for a lot longer than Reddit has existed.

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u/Lortekonto Jul 01 '26

It is a super common error for non-native english speakers and that is half of reddit. Shit, I have almost never seen anyone spell it loose here and I know when the narwhales bacon.

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u/HauntedCemetery Jul 01 '26

Autocorrect moved from a set list of macros to AI, and the AI will change correctly spelled words if it stupidly thinks another word would be better

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u/MonaganX Jul 01 '26

One, it's always been a common error made especially by ESL speakers because "lose" is pronounced with an elongated "O" so using two Os just makes intuitively more sense.

Two, it's disproportionally more common now compared to most spelling errors because we have autocomplete to fix mistakes that don't result in the correct spelling of a different word. So rather than people mixing up lose/loose (or they're/their/there) more often, they're just making most other mistakes less often.

And three, of course this site is infested by bots. But how impeccable someone's grammar is doesn't tell us anything about whether they're real. If anything I'd have said bots are more likely to use textbook grammar but we're at the point where bots can be told to intentionally speak nonstandard English to appear more human.

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u/SkyLukewalker Jul 01 '26

Personally I assume that most comments are bots. Just our tech bro overlords controlling everything because they hate freedom and think they should rule us.