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I've been noticing a trend here on Dakka of what I can only assume from their national flags, are heritage English speakers making simple grammar mistakes involving double vowels. For instance I've commonly seen 'loosing' in the place of 'losing' and 'lieing' in place of 'lying'. Languages and how people speak them are a hobby of mine, but this phenomenon is baffling to me. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to why people keep making these simple mistakes.

Most likely, they don't care as much about spelling as you do, and/or lack practice at spelling correctly because it's not important in their day to day lives.
Lose/Loose is one of the most common internet mispellings, right up there with the 

Yup. Too lazy to care all that much when the basic message of the word gets through.

IAmTheWalrus wrote:I've been noticing a trend here on Dakka of what I can only assume from their national flags, are heritage English speakers making simple grammar mistakes involving double vowels. For instance I've commonly seen 'loosing' in the place of 'losing' and 'lieing' in place of 'lying'. Languages and how people speak them are a hobby of mine, but this phenomenon is baffling to me. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to why people keep making these simple mistakes.

"Heritage English speakers"

Does that many any country where English is the primary language, or England in particular?

sebster wrote:

IAmTheWalrus wrote:I've been noticing a trend here on Dakka of what I can only assume from their national flags, are heritage English speakers making simple grammar mistakes involving double vowels. For instance I've commonly seen 'loosing' in the place of 'losing' and 'lieing' in place of 'lying'. Languages and how people speak them are a hobby of mine, but this phenomenon is baffling to me. I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to why people keep making these simple mistakes.

"Heritage English speakers"

Does that many any country where English is the primary language, or England in particular?

I would assume that he means countries where English is the primary language.


But on topic, I do find that simple mistakes such as "I like Guard, their a good army", really bug me sometimes, as it's a simple sign of laziness that they don't take the time to check what they type.

I agree with the 'their' 'they're' confusion...

...I even edited an article to include an example of it a while ago.

Yep, another one is when it's mentioned that we're in the 21st Millenium. But, that's a bit off topic.

The "they're" and "their" one is the most common from what I've seen; besides the use of capitalisation and your/you're. I just don't let it bug me. That's the important thing, that it can be understood not that it would get full marks in an exam.

For me, as a non "heritage English speakers" some of this mistakes are a bit annoying, because sometimes the meaning changes and I don't get the idea.

Wich is funny, because being a non "heritage English speaker" I will probably make this mistakes.

^^

That is one reason why DakkaDakka encourages proper grammar.

There are times when proper spelling matters. Helping non-native speakers is a good example.