Mine is people who separate words when they write. I’m Norwegian, and we can string together words indefinetly to make a new word. The never ending word may not make any sense, but it is gramatically correct
Still, people write words the wrong way by separating them.
Examples:
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“Ananas ringer” means “the pineapple is calling” when written the wrong way. The correct way is “ananasringer” and it means “pineapple rings” (from a tin).
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“Prinsesse pult i vinkel” means “a princess fucked at an angle”. The correct way to write it is “prinsessepult i vinkel”, and it means “an angeled princess desk” (a desk for children, obviously)
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“Koke bøker” means “to cook books”. The correct way is “kokebøker” and means “cookbooks”
I see these kinds of mistakes everywhere!
Are we doing AI research?
Anyway, I’m not a fan of negative questions, although I don’t know if they are only in English.
Didn’t you hit your wife?
What’s the right answer?
I always found these types of questions a stretch to highlight complexity of the language. I can’t think of a single example you can’t answer clearly with a full sentence.
I did not hit my wife.
“Yes.” and “No.” are complete sentences.
Yes. I should’ve said longer sentence instead of full sentence.