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For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you're or there/their/they're. I'm curious about similar mistakes in other languages.

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[โ€“] neutron@thelemmy.club 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In Korean we have these conjugated forms. They both sound the same:

  1. ๋‚˜์•„ [na.a] (from ๋‚ซ๋‹ค) be/become better
  2. ๋‚ณ์•„ [na.a] (from ๋‚ณ๋‹ค) give birth (to a baby)

So when given A as an example:

(A) ๊ฐ๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑธ๋ ธ์–ด์š”. I got a cold.
(B) ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋‚˜์œผ์„ธ์š”! Hope you get better soon!
(C) ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ณ์œผ์„ธ์š”! Hope you give birth soon!

For some reason Koreans across all ages write C instead of B by mistake. It became a national joke at this point and some do it ironically on purpose. I used to teach Korean. Imagine my face every time.

There are more but I'm on my phone. Will do more later.

[โ€“] Vilian@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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