On 2013-11-16, Larry Hudson <org...@yahoo.com> wrote: > However, that's just a side comment. I wanted to mention my > personal peeve... > > I notice it's surprisingly common for people who are native > English-speakers to use 'to' in place of 'too' (to little, to > late.), "your" in place of "you're" (Your an idiot!) and > 'there' in place of 'their' (a foot in there mouth.) There are > similar mis-usages, of course, but those three seem to be the > most common. > > Now, I'm a 76-year-old curmudgeon and maybe overly sensitive, > but I felt a need to vent a bit.
The cases where written and spoken English diverge are hotbets of word usage problems. I'm glad the issue doesn't exist for programming languages, which thankfully don't really have a colloquial or spoken version. Written English probably changes much slower than spoken English, and we have the curmudgeon's to thank. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
