Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
>>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
>>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>>
>>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the 
>>> hell can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done 
>>> it". WTF
>>
>> Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in 
>> writing "i could've gone home".  To the ear it sounds like "of" 
>> instead of "have". So it's not surprising it gets written this way 
>> sometimes.
> 
> Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to 
> shoot them.

Indeed. OTOH, if you shoot them, they'll never learn. Except maybe by 
some bizarre natural selection process.

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