[Aeolun]

> We treat our time as something to horde

I’m having a hard time understanding how this mistake is made.

Hoard and horde are not even close to the same. They sound the same, but before you write it, shouldn’t you have read it at least once?

Or consider that maybe ‘mass of people’ is probably not the same word that’s used for ‘amass a a bunch of stuff’?

Actually, now that I consider it, it makes total sense that you’d use the same word for that… guess I’ve answered myself.

Anyway, it’s hoard.

[lovecg]

Some people learn language primarily by sound. Most native speakers learn that way. They’re more likely to swap their/they’re or horde/hoard as for them the scribbles on paper are secondary.

Some people learn language primarily through writing - a lot of non-native speakers learn this way. To them someone making a their/they’re mistake is bewildering, but they mispronounce words in ways that seem strange to the sound-learners.

The two groups don’t under each other’s struggles and often look down on the other’s language ability.