• Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Its a shame, I would of sworn I had a list of all native speakers and there annoying errors, because that list would of been longer then big ben.

    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.org
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      5 months ago

      because that list would of been longer then big ben.

      You usually don’t compare bells by their length, weight is much more common. Anyway, Big Ben wouldn’t be a particular heavy one.

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      5 months ago

      I’m gonna swap the question around: Are native English speakers having an easier time reading this, than non-native speakers?

      Personally, as a non-native speaker, I feel like having a stroke in trying to decipher it. It’s like my brain sees regular words, but not the one it expects to follow on the previous ones.

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        5 months ago

        As a native speaker, it’s easy to understand (because it’s phonetic) but painful to read because the grammar is so terrible.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, I didn’t have a problem reading it. The most awkward part was the weird comparison to Big Ben. The wrong “there” was the first thing to make me pause and then I saw the joke.