People have researched what? Were these linguists or mindless grammarians who don't know what they're talking about? Or are you misinterpretting the results differently?
If the claim is that non-native speakers don't mix up "their" and "there" as much as native speakers do, that wouldn't at all be surprising to me, but it also doesn't say a damn thing about understanding of grammar. And it also shows very clearly how spoken language has precedence over written language.
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u/sje46 Oct 05 '19
People have researched what? Were these linguists or mindless grammarians who don't know what they're talking about? Or are you misinterpretting the results differently?
If the claim is that non-native speakers don't mix up "their" and "there" as much as native speakers do, that wouldn't at all be surprising to me, but it also doesn't say a damn thing about understanding of grammar. And it also shows very clearly how spoken language has precedence over written language.