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Paid-Not-Payed-Bot t1_j8cu6uu wrote

Reply to comment by Southboundthylacine in PennDOT charges $6 more for online license renewal? by exhilaration

> you just paid the 6$

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

  • Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

  • Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

Beep, boop, I'm a bot

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Southboundthylacine t1_j8cu939 wrote

Jesus these bots are getting out of hand.

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[deleted] t1_j8cvzj1 wrote

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artificialavocado t1_j8cyixv wrote

There needs to be a there, their, they’re bot and maybe a then/than one. Yeah I’m that guy.

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SomeOtherOrder t1_j8pikd7 wrote

I hate when people use the wrong their/there/they’re as much as the next guy, but I think that programming a bot to correct that would be a lot more complex.

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Electr_O_Purist t1_j8decfv wrote

Can we get a “lose not loose” bot too? What’s with people not being able to spell lose?

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TriVoMoto t1_j8d4fmb wrote

Helping your ass how to spell correctly, but your ego is hurt by a bot lol

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Southboundthylacine t1_j8ed90c wrote

I think your ass might be missing a word in that sentence

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Southboundthylacine t1_j8dm1iw wrote

English isn’t everyone’s first language and it’s not helpful having a smarmy ass bot pop out to grammar nazi you.

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heili t1_j8dn1iw wrote

People who learn English as an additional language tend not to make mistakes like this with homophones because they learn the language in written and oral form at the same time.

This is the kind of mistake made by someone who learned English by hearing it spoken around them.

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TriVoMoto t1_j8dmilq wrote

Let today be a lesson in hubris for you.

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HomicidalHushPuppy t1_j8czdvu wrote

We wouldn't need them if people could just learn basic elementary school grammar.

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