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Someone using to vs too is not misspelling a word; they don't know the difference between two words. That's a grammar mistake. Would you say this is a misspelli
by modestygrime 4y ago
Someone using to vs too is not misspelling a word; they don't know the difference between two words. That's a grammar mistake. Would you say this is a misspelling?
"I hope they share there food with me."
- ltanfr 4y agoNo, it is not. Spelling is the lexer's business, parsing is the grammar's business. "I hope they share there food with me." Of course this is a misspelling.
- modestygrime 4y agoThis is not a misspelling. A person who would write this sentence does not know the difference between there and their. They do not think that their is spelt there.
- dagw 4y ago"to" vs "too" are close enough that could be either a spelling mistake or a grammar mistake. If they get it wrong every time then it's a grammar mistake, if they get it wrong only once, then it was probably a spelling mistake.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoThis is a misunderstanding of how language works. The written form is derived from the spoken form and not the other way around. Using the wrong letters for words that are phonetically identical in your dialect is a simple transcription error, not a failure to understand the difference between the words.