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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 39 points 2 years ago

People misspelling 'woman' annoys the hell out of me. It's literally 'man' prefixed by 'wo'. I don't know what bizarre process could lead to using 'women' instead. And it's nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago

That and "should of" should be punishable by getting your hand cut off.

[-] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Read: "head cut off" and agreed. Sry for that.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Their not the only ones who should be punished!

[-] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

I'd rather stub my toe then see such simple mistakes

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The difference is that one is singular and one is plural. "Theres a group of women" and "Theres a singlular woman"

People do often get the usage wrong but its not being misspelled.

[-] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

And it's nearly always these Andrew-Tate-loving pound shop alphas.

Nah, it's not that deep--tons of men and women make this particular mistake (writing "women" when intending to use the singular "woman") for some bizarre reason. I've observed this phenomenon for well over a decade. Notably, I've never really seen someone write "woman" when they mean "women", only the other direction. And never with man/men at all. Very odd, specific error.

Maybe it's a "should of"-type mistake, I can only guess. But what I know for sure is that it's a very common mistake, and almost certainly unintentional.

[-] enbyecho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You misspelled Alfas.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's not, it's a mistake I've seen plenty of normal people do, including women.

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I recall a particular time period in early-ish smartphone history when the stupid thing tried to correct every instance of woman in my emails to "roman" for some weird reason so that one might just be auto-correct gone stupid again.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This type of thing sometimes happens to me when I'm writing a comment on my phone. The using a wrong version of a word, not the rampant misogyny. Its usually from changing how I wanted to structure the sentence, like changing tense or deciding to make something singular or plural, and not noticing that I missed updating one of the words.

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

I feel like this image has more to be upset about than misnumbering the word woman.

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