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I'm a native speaker and I never make those mistakes.

I find it irritating when I read writing that includes those kinds of basic mistakes.

Of course, you even see those kinds of basic mistakes on the TV, especially the news tickers. I see about one per week, and I'm not even consciously looking for them.

I think it's people who have never read a lot, so they just write whatever sounds similar. Just seems lazy to me to not check, and after reading these comments from non-natives who can get it right, I now think it's super-lazy.



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