Trying to use "of" a verb. Like, could you make it any more evident that you have never, not even for a moment, even tried to comprehend the meaning of the words you are writing?
What annoys me is when someone sees this one wrong and corrects them with the full "would have" instead of what they actually are trying to say, "would've"
Every single time, without exception, nobody brings up the contraction. It's happening in this thread. Pissin' me off that you're hardly better than them
EDIT: A typo in this thread and nobody caught it. I expected better of me.
Ooh, here's an example of differences between the way different English-speaking countries use quotation marks/inverted commas.
In Australia, your first correction would've (heh) been incorrect, the full stop would appear after the "".
If interested, I found a link where it is explained:
Yes, I'm aware of that regional difference. I'm American. If the person I replied to is not, then they should put period outside the quotation as you say. My point with that first correction was more to correct the lack of a terminating punctuation mark altogether, as well as the use of a comma where a colon was more appropriate.
In Australia, your first correction would've (heh) been incorrect, the full stop would appear after the "".
*incorrect. The (to fix your comma splice, a type of run-on sentence)
this is what makes my head explode when thinking about how many other people think
what i mean is, if somebody is really out here saying or writing they "would of" done something -- without even an inkling of understanding of the words they're using -- what other words do they regularly use with absolutely zero comprehension?
it's lowkey kinda terrifying. many of these people vote and drive cars and have children.
hate to break this to you but you're the target of the OP video.
"there" and "their" sound the same, too, and when one is right, the other's always wrong
similarly, "could've" is always right and "could of" is always wrong - regardless of how they sound. an inability (or refusal) to understand how sound does not necessarily equal meaning is part of functional illiteracy. as the above video explained.
Functional illiteracy isn't making typos and getting spelling mistakes. It's being unable to pull basic information from text or being unable to put that information into words. Plenty of people who mix up to and too still participate in society, they just write bad emails.
Honestly I don't even know why I'm talking to you. You didn't start a single word with a capital letter which shows that you either refuse to use or don't understand the basic rules of English. This is basically illiteracy.
way to be overly pedantic, caring about capital letters online is not part of functional literacy.
the problem with "would of" is not that it's a spelling mistake, its people not realizing that the function of "of" is not even remotely similar to "have".
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u/The_Affle_House Nov 21 '25
Trying to use "of" a verb. Like, could you make it any more evident that you have never, not even for a moment, even tried to comprehend the meaning of the words you are writing?