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• faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  than…

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  • diegantobass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As a non-native speaker of english, I can’t get my head around this grammatical mistake. Than and then are completely different!

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    • faltryka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is a common mistake for many native English speakers and highlights the different challenges in speaking a language and writing a language.

      In many regions of the US for example, “than” and “then” are often pronounced exactly the same.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      native speakers make spelling errors more often than non native speakers because they learn to speak the language way before learning to spell, which means homophones can easily register as the same word in your mind for years before you even encounter the words in writing. having to unlearn things is usually harder than just learning it in the first place.

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    • kernelle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve noticed over the years I never used to make the mistake, but the better my proficiency, the more I started making the mistake. I think when you start running on autopilot mistakes like that are made more often

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  • Aedis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I like to believe that it’s a like a news headline “More Americans have died of ebola after marrying Kim Kardashian”

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  • terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nah, just missing an ,

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    • hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nah, just missing an a ,

      FTFY

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• toofpic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why did they die of ebola after marriage?

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  • four@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How would they get married after dying of Ebola?

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Now there’s no need to kink shame.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh, so ghosts can’t get married now?!

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Incubation period, I suppose.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  On a sidenote, after Republicans panicked over an Ebola outbreak in the USA then President Obama followed strict procedures to contain the outbreak and created an Pandemic Playbook for future presidents to use as guidelines. You know the rest.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Also worth pointing out that Obama was following the example of W. It was their guy that originally started the project. Obama was just logically expanding it to include the rest of the world, because that’s how pandemics work.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And the Guy’s name was Fauci, who Trump hates so much that Biden is preemptively pardoning him.

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My wife was caught up in that Ebola scare, because she was on the same plane that the nurse (who had been treating Ebola patients and knew she had been exposed) flew in on. The feds came knocking on her door, and basically said that if anyone in the household left the house, they would immediately go to prison. They put ankle monitors on everyone in the household, and security tape across all the doors and windows so none could be opened without visibly breaking the tape. The CDC called every hour or so to do mandatory temperature checks, and they had to talk to every person in the household to make sure everyone was still present.

    Apparently she almost got fired over it, because her manager initially didn’t believe her. She tried to pull the typical “if you’re sick you need to find someone to cover your shifts. If you can’t find anyone, you need to come in” BS that is rampant in retail. It wasn’t until my wife had the feds call her manager and basically tell her “she’s 100% under quarantine, and if you encourage her to break it we’ll haul your ass in front of a judge” that the manager relented.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Conclusion: Kim Kardashian is the primary source of the Ebola Virus in America.

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  • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Republican arguments 101

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• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why hasn’t she been quarantined yet?

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This meme is so old it’s on Windows 7.

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is that guy still rocking windows XP?

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  • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No the transparency effect means at least vista.

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For whatever reason I always forget about vista.

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  • WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Looks like 7.

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• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So far…

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• ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So the count is more than 1? Damn we might want to investigate Kim Kardashian, she may be symptomless.

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• loics2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  More than 28000 between 2013 and 2016? That’s a lot of husbands!

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• nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Than

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s not a statistic, its a news headline reporting on a chain of events.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  …so far

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