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Warp wrote:
> - The progressive tense of the verb to die is dying, not "dieing". The
> same goes for to lie -> lying.
Not seen that one before...
> - People who constantly confuse the words "than" and "then".
In fairness, it wasn't until recently that I discovered that these are
actually different words with subtly different meanings.
> - I think some people write "they're" instead of "there" on purpose, just
> to annoy people.
...or, generalising, people who do *anything* specifically for the
purpose of annoying people.
> - People who don't realize that when they say "I don't know nothing", they
> are actually saying "I know something".
Ah yes, gotta love double and triple negatives. :-}
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