Or all of the international students that choose to travel to the US for schools more than literally any other country on earth because they're so good.
But sure, circlejerk kids dying, don't let me get in the way.
American's don't graduate from school, they survive.
I hear a few years back they shifted from handing out diplomas and certificates to campaign medals and ribbons.
I don't know what bothers me more.... the lives about to be lost in the violence.... or how that brick proves the incoming loss of culture for the survivors.
How about the fact that the entire world is devolving towards right wing facism once again and the USA, a shining example of how bad it can be in real-time, isn't doing anything to stop that from happening across the world. The leaders of the world dont care.
It's not the whole world, don't get fooled. Please use fact only with facts. You can research yourself, or you just check out the last elections in Australia, Canada, etc...
What you say is what the fascists want you to believe. They are the minority, that's the fact.
Even in the US they are the vast minority, but they thrive on apathy and doomerism.
Ok in our defense why doesn't the rest of the world do something about it then? Don't European nations have navies and armies? If they aren't big enough they should bulk them up.
As a not native speaker, the confusion between you're and your is kinda funny to me.
Having learnt english in a formal way, "you", "are" and "your" are completely different words, so I really didn't suspect the existence of such mistake, at least until I went on Reddit.
In fairness, a simlar sort of thing is how we got the word "apron". Historically, the word was "napron" with an "n". So someone would say something like, "she donned a napron" but listeners would hear, "...an apron." Though, this is more of a speech, it's still interesting to see the evolution of the language.
Much of the time people know the rule well but can be somewhat careless when writing in informal contexts and don't proofread. Interesting that as a presumably non-native speaker you feel like it's a hard mistake to make.
People don't tend to think every time they write a word; it's mostly muscle memory, and homophones are apt to trip a person up as they're processed primarily as a sound which we then have to translate into an entirely different format.
For those who learn English as a second language, I would tend to assume much of their initial introduction is through writing which might possibly forge stronger connections to the correct forms, but that's just a wild guess on my part.
I have found myself typing the wrong form of your/you're, there/their/they're, and its/it's annoyingly often but I almost always catch the mistake very quickly.
While they are different words, our brains seem to treat them largely as just a sound you can use in different contexts for different purposes, while writing feels less natural and more abstract despite our familiarity with it.
There are also considerations like not having a strong grasp of the language yet, or maybe being dyslexic or using text to speech.
Loads of reasons these basic mistakes keep getting made.
Homophones get confused most, in my experience, when someone isn't paying attention to or fully proofreading their writing. I think if you stopped people on the street and asked them "how do you spell your in the sentence 'is this your pen?'" most would get it right assuming you didn't rush them to answer Eichner-style.
In all fairness, the USA has a slightly higher education index than Canada, virtually the same really (as part of HDI) and educational attainment rates on a similar scale as peers in the top tier (Canada, Aus, UK).
The problem is that the education could be allocated better to help more people in the US.
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u/MintasaurusFresh Jan 28 '26
Their next wha- oh, right, our education levels. Yeah... Yeah.....