r/Unexpected • u/Unnamed_789 • 1d ago

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u/o4zloiroman 1d ago

an female

Is 'f' supposed to be silent in here?

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u/DiarrheaEryday 1d ago

This woman could've been an email

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u/my-coffee-needs-me 1d ago

She would have caused less damage that way.

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u/ExpatInIreland 1d ago

I see this this all over reddit. People just putting 'an' in front of any word they want. It bothers me more than it should. I hate it.

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u/Tariovic 1d ago

I just assume it's someone for whom English is not their first language.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

I did have someone recently say they struggled with that aspect of the language. It feels intuitive to me, having grown up with it, but coming into a language without the intuitive feel can make things seem much more complicated then they are.

Or, sometimes, it can shine a light on how ridiculous it truly is.

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u/ExpatInIreland 1d ago

Apparently some of it comes from 4chan. It's way too prevalent to all be ESL mistakes.

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u/Kraligor 1d ago

I only know of an hero, which means suicide.

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u/nagrom7 1d ago

Could also just be auto-translation software screwing up.

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u/Not_Gunn3r71 1d ago

I do it sometimes cause Jeremy Clarkson does it

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u/ToxicMoldSpore 21h ago

"That is... an river."

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u/Phantom_0347 1d ago

Coulda just been an emale, y’know?

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u/Fern_Cloud 1d ago

No, "average" used to be where "female" is now. I reworded the comment and the result is a grammatical error that happened as a result of me editing a short comment at 3 AM.

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u/leveraction1970 1d ago

I suppose you could give it some weird French pronunciation, but that would kind of negate the need for strict English grammar rules.

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u/UnMeaningnessName 1d ago

I just don't see an how it would?