• Emerald@lemmy.worldOP
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    Indeed. I literally never use the word “than”. Fuck grammar, “than” looks weird.

    I never say “than”, I say “then”, therefore it just seems right to spell it how I always say it.

    Edit: I wonder what the most downvoted comment is on Lemmy World, am I making history?

    Edit: I’m concerned for everyone who upvoted this

    • then_three_more@lemmy.world
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      It’s not grammar it’s an entitlement different word. It would be like refusing to call a dog a dog because you think it sounds better to call it a cat.

      Edit - you know what, I’m leaving that auto correct in. Entitlement looks better here to me than entirely.

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      Consider this: when you speak the listeners know what you mean based on the rest of the sentence. When you write you give the reader the intended word through spelling. People who read will see your words and assume you really meant “then” instead of “than”, and the sentence will make little sense.
      The words “I” and “eye” sound similar, but if you write “eye” I will read a sentence first thinking you are trying to say something about an eye, then when it breaks down, go back and find the issue. End that my friend is less then eye-deal for comprehension.

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      Unforchunetly, Ingglish speling duzn’t laiyn up with saowndz wun-tuh-wun.

      Spelling things how you say them can lead to people misunderstanding or causing unintended(?) pain.

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        We write our language (swiss-german) like this 😂 everything is allowed and there are strangely very little misunderstandings. Only bad thing about is, that swiping keyboard rarely work with it.

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          And us german-germans think you are very weird and you might as well call your spoken language something other than german, cause no one can understand it anyways. Also why are you so afraid of this: ß?

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          I do with English would switch to phonetic spelling, including the eventi of the speaker, but we’re never going to switch. At least the standardized spelling does have a very minor advantage in terms of disambiguation with homophones. But then we had to go and mess up read/read and lead/lead.

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            Read/ret lead/let -> easy 😜 but how to write “do” I mean it is not a normal spoken “o” and not exactly a “u” like it is a “u” but without (yo)u Write phonetic is more easy in German, I think, or maybe only because it is my birth language 🤔

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        Understood everything you wrote without issue.

        English is a Honda civic. Its not pretty but it works even after years of abuse and neglect

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      I hope this does not affect your usage of effect in the correct context.

      As a former copy editor I find the effect of using affect incorrectly eye roll inducing.

      But yeah, affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

      The easy rule of thumb for then/than is that if you are comparing things or qualities or quantities of things, you use than, otherwise, then is used.

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      The literal way to read what you wrote is to never ask Flatpak, in order:

      1. how it can download more
      2. the total file size

      The only reason no one thinks this is what you mean is because of how many people also mess this up.

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      “Language is fluid and constantly changing”

      Our education system is in the toilet and I didn’t pay attention 😂

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      Upvoted because you have the sort of can do won’t do attitude that made American English great. Emerald for dictionarian!

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      They reject u even though you spoken truest worders good are.

      Nobody who spoke English that read your sentence misunderstood what you said based and than vs then and that English doesn’t have to be pretty to get the job done

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        I had to read your comment at least twice before I could parse it.

        So basically what you’re both saying is that you are so incredibly selfish, you don’t care if someone needs to read your comments multiple times in order to not misunderstand you, as long as it’s easier for you and you don’t have to bother learning to be understood

        Thanks man