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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe english is their second language. (Copium)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In my experience, these mistakes are made primarily by native speakers. Because they learned it by hearing and can't tell the difference. Those who learned English as a second language learn through books and are explicitly taught the difference.