What are some grammar rules in your language that not even the natives get it right? (sh.itjust.works)

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My first language is Korean, and one rule no one gets right is the spacing. It seems pretty obvious in English and many other languages, but in Korean, there are things that look like a single word but is actually two separate words (and vice versa), particles which needs to be written without spacing, and some other rules that makes it confusing. It's bad enough that one of the former director of the National Institute of Korean Language confessed he's not confident about it either.

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[-] AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Two that always kill me:

Not knowing when to use "and I" vs "and me" and defaulting to "and I" because they think it's correct.

You do things on purpose and by accident. You do not do things on accident. That's saying you did it accidently on purpose.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago

The "and I" vs "and me" is a tricky one, especially because we don't teach people to understand subject vs object except in perhaps grade school.

I have to really think about it, and I consider myself a bit of a pedant.

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