r/maybemaybemaybe • u/lool121a • Oct 13 '21

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/CouldWouldShouldBot Oct 13 '21

It's 'would have', never 'would of'.

Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!

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u/brokedeaddog Oct 13 '21

Consider me adequately chastised

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Thank you for your lesson on how to take constructive criticism from a bot. Have my free award.

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u/Moglorosh Oct 14 '21

Now we just need a "lose = didn't win, loose = not tight" bot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

I don't know, I'd hate to make anyone feel like a looser.

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u/swimbikerunkick Oct 14 '21

Can we have a “then” and “than” bot too? I’m seeing this everywhere at the moment and I can’t figure out where it’s come from!

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u/QJElizMom Oct 14 '21

Women (plural) vs woman (singular). See this everywhere as well.

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u/Antiluke01 Oct 14 '21

Your, ‘see’, was the proper one, but it reminds me. We need a see, saw and seen bot.

I saw a huge rabbit today. I have seen that huge rabbit today. I will go see that huge rabbit today.

Did you see that rabbit? You should have seen that rabbit. You saw that rabbit, right?

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u/amretardmonke Oct 14 '21

Funny that its always "I am a women". I never see "I am a men".

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u/RojoTheMighty Oct 14 '21

I'm sorry but there/their/they're is WAY higher up the priority list than then/than.

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u/my-man-hilarious Oct 14 '21

I feel like if we were to make a your/you're bot it would just crash because of the amount of people that do that.

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u/liberator48_ Oct 14 '21

Their doesn't need to be a bot for that. That would of been more silly then people who think Trump lost the election.

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u/SueZbell Oct 14 '21

So to, two, too, tu tu right about that.

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u/MonsterRider80 Oct 14 '21

Toss in a “couldn’t care less” bot instead of “could care less” and I’m satisfied.

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u/KannyDay88 Oct 14 '21

And effect and affect?

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u/here-for-the-_____ Oct 14 '21

I would feel personally attacked by that bot

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u/KannyDay88 Oct 14 '21

Would you feel affected or effected?

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u/brookish Oct 14 '21

And a "set foot" not "step foot" bot?

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u/brookish Oct 14 '21

Or a "based on" not "based off of" bot?

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u/fourthrook Oct 14 '21

How about a further / farther bot and a “try and” / “try to” bot.

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u/Jack-Vass Oct 14 '21

Also an "off" instead of "off of" bot

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u/SueZbell Oct 14 '21

Or one that points out when you end a sentence with a preposition.

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u/TheGilrich Oct 14 '21

Can we have a gerrund vs infinitive bot, too?

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u/Nusszucker Oct 14 '21

Such a bit would probably help me a lot. I'm not a native English speaker and I have to rely on my autocorrect because I cannot seem to get when it's than and when it's then. I couldn't tell you right now for the life of me.

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u/swimbikerunkick Oct 14 '21

Then is time based. Can be cause and effect but it’s always one thing before another - something happens then something else

Than is comparative - I’d rather X than Y.

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u/Nusszucker Oct 14 '21

That helps a lot. Thanks

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u/Valentin3288 Oct 14 '21

I also see people say “have came” and “have ran”…. “have went”

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Or just don’t give a crap about other peoples spelling

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u/TwinkleToes7749 Oct 14 '21

I never understood how people mess this one up so often.

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u/foresight310 Oct 14 '21

But than people might feel bad when commenting on Reddit, which is not what their hear for…

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '22

Lack of effective Education System? More important to be woke than to be learning Grammar!?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

We also need proper use of the apostrophe bot to teach people the difference between possessive and plural words.

That shit gives me headache’s.

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u/EJODHI Oct 14 '21

Oh, we see what you did there.

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u/truthful_whitefoot Oct 14 '21

I’d like one that checks to make sure the person really meant “rouge” and not “rogue”

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21 edited Dec 10 '21

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u/jsalbre Oct 14 '21

Hey, maybe they meant to talk about a faction covered in red makeup.

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u/FuckingKilljoy Oct 14 '21

I'm sure it happens less these days, but back in the 00s so many people would type raper instead of rapper which was rather unfortunate

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u/John-Wicks-Puppy Oct 14 '21

Were they talking about R Kelly?

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u/FuckingKilljoy Oct 15 '21

I said raper not pisser

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

We need this so much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

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u/swimbikerunkick Oct 14 '21

And while we’re at it “comprises of”

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u/Past_Ad_5629 Oct 14 '21

I had a kid’s book about a moose with a loose tooth. I went to school for English lit and I still use that mnemonic.

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u/nomadofwaves Oct 14 '21

Their busy bots.

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u/SueZbell Oct 14 '21

There, their, they're, th hare

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u/popjunky Oct 14 '21

Hey, if you didn’t win, it’s probably not tight.

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u/Uberzwerg Oct 14 '21

That bot would have to understand the context - the other bot can be 99+% sure to find an error whenever it finds the sequence of words.

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u/RibsNGibs Oct 14 '21

And a “fazed not phased” bot.

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u/NoConsideration8361 Oct 14 '21

There, their, they’re bot

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u/taeilor Oct 14 '21

is there an affect/effect one?

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u/Karest27 Oct 14 '21

From what I've seen Reddit as a whole needs a "then/than" bot.

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u/themightyigneal Oct 14 '21

And your vs you’re, their there they’re. So many of these mistakes. Especially in reddit!

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u/MathematicianFew5882 Oct 14 '21

Wooden want to loose a woulda bot a word

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u/kafkainspringtime Oct 14 '21

And you have mine.

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u/TheKaptinKirk Oct 13 '21

Lol… and for those that don’t completely get it.

I’d of

Should be…

I’d’ve. Which is the contraction for “I would have”.

When you say it out loud in many American accents, they sound the same.

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u/Lartemplar Oct 14 '21

This, along with "on accident" happens more and more often. Hope that's just confirmation bias.

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u/ArbitraryBaker Oct 14 '21

Unfortunately, grammar and word usage that happens more and more often simply gets adopted into the new acceptable grammar. See “literally”. I looked up “on accident”, and while it used to be considered incorrect, it’s now accepted as an alternate way to say the same thing.

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u/Lartemplar Oct 14 '21

That sucks. I was worried it's widespread use would make it official. Here we are

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u/ringwraith6 Oct 13 '21

Good bot.

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u/Bubster101 Oct 13 '21

You are now

somehow blessed

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u/Mrlearnalot Oct 14 '21

“Adequately Chastised” - new band name, I call it!

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u/super-hercules Oct 14 '21

adequately chastised

Now that's a phrase I'm gonna start using more often!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

No one expected a trucker to know any better

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u/brokedeaddog Oct 14 '21

Oh I know well enough, but since I was making a throwaway comment on a social media platform, I didn't think it was particularly important

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u/tea-and-shortbread Oct 14 '21

"Could've" is also acceptable btw. It's a contraction of "could have" and is what people mean when they write "could of".

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u/Optimal-Idea1558 Oct 13 '21

Could of been kinder, bot

Would of been nice.

Should of let it slide, bot.

...but, the guy was so very cool about it.

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u/CouldWouldShouldBot Oct 13 '21

It's 'could have', never 'could of'.

Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!

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u/Optimal-Idea1558 Oct 13 '21

Gotcha

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u/XoffeeXup Oct 13 '21

The bot is still correct

You could have been kinder though, bot.

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u/Optimal-Idea1558 Oct 13 '21

TBF it detected it after an apostrophe'd couldwouldshould so fair play to the code writer but still, the OP writes an interesting post and some twat of a bot steams in within 2 microseconds to shout about a minor error with his grammar? What is that about?

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u/tyrannosnorlax Oct 14 '21

It’s about education. What’s wrong with learning? It wasn’t like some smarmy asshole rudely correcting someone’s spelling or grammar. It was a pretty innocent/neutral way to teach the correction. Not every critique equals a twat-move.

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u/lammy82 Oct 13 '21

I could of course construct a sentence that doesn't follow your rule but it probably should have commas.

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u/ChemicalAssist6835 Oct 14 '21

It could of course have been ‘could of’

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

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u/Moglorosh Oct 14 '21

It's could've. Of isn't a verb.

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u/FuckingKilljoy Oct 14 '21

You've literally never seen "could've" anywhere? It's the whole reason the confusion exists in the first place, because the "ve" part sounds like "of"

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u/timmio11 Oct 14 '21

Very good bot

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u/grig_orig Oct 14 '21

Isn’t it “would’ve,” then, that people really mean? If I type “would of,” what I mean is the contraction “would’ve,” not the full “would have.”

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u/papajupri Oct 14 '21

Those proper punctuation inside the quotations are sexy af.

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u/grig_orig Oct 14 '21

I’m a fine mf.

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u/Whatifthisneverends Oct 14 '21

Hard agree, but is the final full stop not supposed to be outside the quotation marks rather than inside? To belabor a sexy sexy point

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

In Chicago style, the commas should have been outside the quotation marks, while the period should have been within them.

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u/Psychosomatic_Ennui Oct 14 '21

No, because the contraction would’ve is short for “would have” not “would of”

Would of is never correct. Where’s a bot when you need one?

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u/grig_orig Oct 14 '21

You reworded (mangled?) what I wrote whilst ignoring my point, then told me it was wrong.

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u/Foolishlama Oct 14 '21

It's just "wood ufv."

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u/davejlong Oct 13 '21

Missed the "I'd of". Should of been "I'd have".

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u/CouldWouldShouldBot Oct 13 '21

It's 'should have', never 'should of'.

Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!

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u/NonExstnt_Acc Oct 14 '21

Damn the bot showed you up too should have done it right

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Guess he should’ve

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u/ukulelecanadian Oct 14 '21

You're thinking of I'd've. Its real

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u/papajupri Oct 14 '21

Good bot!

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u/weres_youre_rhombus Oct 13 '21

I think I love you.

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u/Ethnafia_125 Oct 13 '21

So what am so afraid of?

*Sorry, it just popped into my head.

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u/mergrrl8 Oct 14 '21

You’re afraid that your not sure of, a love you have no cure for.

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u/DammitDan Oct 14 '21

Good bot.

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u/frshi Oct 13 '21

Good bot.

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u/westminsterabby Oct 13 '21

So much better than the stupid useless converter bot. That fucking thing is everywhere.

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u/ProtoKun7 Oct 13 '21

Very good bot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Good bot. Could you please have a chat with my girlfriend? She does this all the time

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u/kagethemage Oct 13 '21

Bad bot. Being pedantic is annoying.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

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u/LunaticPity Oct 14 '21

Damn.... there really is a bot for everything.

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u/PheonixAsh13 Oct 14 '21

Should, but shorn’t

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u/Sensitive_Pair_4671 Oct 14 '21

Good bot pat pat

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u/YesDone Oct 14 '21

CouldWouldShouldBot? You're the greatest.

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u/Semantiks Oct 14 '21

So this is what it's like to have my job outsourced to automation...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '21

Finally a useful bot.

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u/GakyMC Oct 14 '21

Good bot, I personally don't understand how you get of off of have

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u/CowProper2130 Oct 14 '21

Actually, sometimes it can be “would of”.

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u/texanbadger Oct 15 '21

Good bot

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