Can you differentiate between both
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Same meme but change “non native” to “native”
“Than” is for comparisons, i.e more than or less than.
“Then” is for sequencing, i.e if this happens then this happens, or this then that.
funnily enough, I see more native speakers struggle with it than non-natives. For some reason the difference is obvious to everyone except the native speakers
There are many native English speakers who also have no idea the difference
As a non native speaker, actually its pretty easy
Bruh the only people who have problem with then/than are natives.
*native english speakers
I am non native English speaker but I know their difference.
Natives are the worst when it comes to grammar.
As a non-native English speaker, I’m gonna call bullshit on the meme. I’ve only heard native speakers commit this atrocity.
In Spanish, each verb has like, 12 different forms and endings/conjugations. And they don’t all follow the same perfect rules either. Lots of memorization and inconsistency. Yet, English is supposedly really difficult to remember the difference between two words with a letter difference.
Then = time than = compare
For non native English speakers there are lots of chaotic phrases.
The worst of which is:
Bass, a freshwater fish
Bass, a deep toned guitar
Base, a station in baseball
All I know, is that Than is different than Then.
Quite the opposite. I’ve noticed that more non-native speakers actually know the difference, while native speakers (mostly Americans, from my observations), only use one option for both, or just put one of them (always the wrong one) at random.
I’ve been the one to remedy a native English speaker on their grammar quite a few times. :’D I suppose the level of education just is or at least used to be better in Northern Europe. We weren’t familiar with the language from birth so we actually learned how to write it by grammar rather than guessing at phonetics.
I see more native English speakers make that mistake than non-native ones, tbh.
Same with “your” and “you’re” and “could have” and “could of”
Native speakers rarely type in proper grammar as well.
this is easier for many non-natives, as we often have more distinguishable words in our native languages
Not to mention should’ve and “should of” that’s abused these days
im a non native english speaker and tbh it’s not that fucking hard.
Native english speakers are somehow worse at this than non-native speakers.
sorry but, as non native, I’ve seen this kind of error, mainly by natives. ngl.
You sure its the non-native?
Reading the comments it seems like native speakers struggle with these way more.
I’ve seen more natives struggling with it than non-natives
I’ve seen more native english speakers using them wrong than non-native ones (same for their and they’re)
Non native english speakers are better at differentiating them, than native ones.
Native English speakers can’t even distinguish between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’
Rather than this?
And, then?
Pacific and Specific
No?’
It’s more Th a/e n hard
Yes.
Bigger than it was back then
I think there are more native english speakers who use them interchangebly and wrong.
I see about as many non-native speakers make this mistake as native speakers
Thæn
I actually feel like I, as a non native, have it easier than native speakers.
After all, when you’re already literate, you learn these from the start as separate words. If you’re a native speaker, you learn the sound early on, before you can read or write, and then later have to start differentiating.
Affect vs effect…
Native speakers are worse for this *than* non native speakers are let’s be real. I hate how illiterate the majority is
may I present to you:
der die das
dem des den
all of these are “the” in english but have very specific use cases.
Your meme sucks and so do you.