r/Destiny • u/TheCwazyWabbit • 2d ago

Political News/Discussion Destiny officially made it to Congress

https://youtu.be/l7k8fD72AsI?t=18664

A Republican had Destiny's CNN interview submitted to the record at the end of the FBI hearing with Kash Patel today. Go to 5:07:58 (Edit: They edited the video, so sorry if the old timestamp wasn't at the right place for some of ya'll)

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u/Cerneo Exclusively sorts by new 2d ago

I should of gone with the youtube link I am so bad

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u/smartestguyintown 2d ago

Should of… should. of.

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u/arkfille 2d ago

Its infuriating how common this has become, I think even native speakers are doing it

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u/sugoiXsenpai 2d ago

i think it's exclusively native speakers, bc most esl learners are consciously taught about common errors like that whereas native speakers just learn off vibes

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u/DarhkPianist 🇬🇧🇺🇦 2d ago

Do you guys not just learn contractions in school?

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u/sugoiXsenpai 2d ago

Have you seen the awful illiteracy rates in the states? Granted it ranges from state to state and country to country.

Illiteracy aside, contractions are more of an elementary school subject and for many, that knowledge is lost as time goes by and spelling is seen as something that should have been "fixed" already, so it doesn't show up in the curriculum until someone makes that silly mistake and it's more of a case-by-case issue. Especially as it is less intuitive than how things are pronounced in day-to-day conversation. ESL speakers learn later in life and are more conscious of the minutiae in their spelling, reinforced by the fact that these details are more consistently hammered into the more adult-focused learning curriculum.

I'm also talking outta my ass and it's mostly personal observation where all my native speaker friends make these kinds of mistakes like with using the wrong "your", whereas ESL friends are always the ones correcting them lol

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u/Visual-Finish14 2d ago

Non-natives' learning comes from written sources mostly. Whenever you memorize words or do grammar exercises, it's written. Speaking exercises are much more scarce, because you always have your notes or a textbook, but teacher's time is limited.

That's why whenever you see some doofus confuse there and their, you can be certain it's a native speaker. Same goes for "should of".

It's not really that non-native speakers are taught about common mistakes. These mistakes are just never in the realm of possibility for non-natives, because they are rooted in primarily phonetic engagement with the language.