"Alot" isn't a word dammit!

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It's "a lot". Two words. As in: "Man this forum sure contains a lot of spelling and grammatical errors."

How did this common error start anyway? And why is it so common?

[Skkooomer Lord]

thatawholelotta meh

[St✩rlight]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Shiro♌:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Munithe EXT:

The simplest one is 'then' and 'than'. I don't know how so many people can screw it up so badly all the time.

It does happen when you don't think that much about it or are thinking about something else while typing or writing that down.
Although I do know when to use them, I have sometimes produced such errors. If I'm not mistaken, they do sound a lot alike too.
Like.. When I type down something, I do sometimes speak it out aloud.. And when it sounds differently than it's written or typed, I do make the error, or vice-versa. There's not much more to it, I think..

Yeah, if it is a typo then it happens sometimes but it seems like some people just don't know the difference or correct usage for those words.

[BlackBloodGhost]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ZZZZZ:

why not embrace it? we could make it one word and it would have the same meaning :lunar2019coolpig:

Year, your write, we should embrace it :-D

It like alot of hassle and it don't effect people anyways, so it seems troubles then its worth tos fix the writing :-D

So we can chose to right how we went :-D.

Thats only issue now for theirs grammers nazis now :-D

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BlackBloodRum:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ZZZZZ:

why not embrace it? we could make it one word and it would have the same meaning

Year, your write, we should embrace it :-D

It like alot of hassle and it don't effect people anyways, so it seems troubles then its worth tos fix the writing :-D

So we can chose to right how we went :-D.

Thats only issue now for theirs grammers nazis now :-D

Slowly inhales then exhales


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THEIR IN ZE ALPHABET!

[Shiro♌]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Munithe EXT:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Shiro♌:

It does happen when you don't think that much about it or are thinking about something else while typing or writing that down.
Although I do know when to use them, I have sometimes produced such errors. If I'm not mistaken, they do sound a lot alike too.
Like.. When I type down something, I do sometimes speak it out aloud.. And when it sounds differently than it's written or typed, I do make the error, or vice-versa. There's not much more to it, I think..

Yeah, if it is a typo then it happens sometimes but it seems like some people just don't know the difference or correct usage for those words.

I don't believe that they don't know. I'm sorta convinced that they do know, but don't really care about it and so there's never any change within what they respond with.
Responding with grammar errors feels so natural to them that they're not even aware of making them, because they don't think that much about it.

There's another thing and that's us assuming stuff about each other, making it fairly easy to claim that the person doesn't know, whereas it could've been a typo like you've mentioned. The tricky part is, we can't tell how frequently and when it's a typo and when it's the lack of knowledge of knowing the proper grammar.

[BlackBloodGhost]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Tugboat III:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BlackBloodRum:

Year, your write, we should embrace it :-D

It like alot of hassle and it don't effect people anyways, so it seems troubles then its worth tos fix the writing :-D

So we can chose to right how we went :-D.

Thats only issue now for theirs grammers nazis now :-D

Slowly inhales then exhales


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THEIR IN ZE ALPHABET!

I tink ware in agreeing than! :-D

Theirs be our new righting way :-D

[s w e k]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbrEsOLu75c

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

It Isn't My Problem That My Self Can Not Speak Proper!

[BlackBloodGhost]

Indeed! It isn't our fault that we are unable to learn to write correctly.

Therefore, people will have to learn to read our new language!

[Sixtyfivekills]

Shouldn't "Dammit" also be "damn it"?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sixtyfivekills:

Shouldn't "Dammit" also be "damn it"?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dammit

I remember the days when people had a little saying, "Ain't ain't a word because ain't ain't in the dictionary." Lo and behold... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t

[BlackBloodGhost]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sixtyfivekills:

Shouldn't "Dammit" also be "damn it"?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dammit

I remember the days when people had a little saying, "Ain't ain't a word because ain't ain't in the dictionary." Lo and behold... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t

:summercrab2023:

Yarp, those dicts r messd up naw.

Lol, is even officially a word in a dictionary lol.

So go ahead and put lol in your next elgansh lit university essay. If they down mark ya, point at ze dictionary!

Your essay title "How the world has evolved, lol"

[Moogal™]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Sixtyfivekills:

Shouldn't "Dammit" also be "damn it"?

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dammit

I remember the days when people had a little saying, "Ain't ain't a word because ain't ain't in the dictionary." Lo and behold... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t

:summercrab2023:

There is such a thing as casualization of language. Which i find reasonable.

[JEZEBEL]

https://youtu.be/VbrEsOLu75c

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Moogal™:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dammit

I remember the days when people had a little saying, "Ain't ain't a word because ain't ain't in the dictionary." Lo and behold... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ain%27t

There is such a thing as casualization of language. Which i find reasonable.

The saying was the best mainly because the overuse of the word in it.

They used to have a "vulgar" warning on the word.