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Re: Changed language in history. Bought? Hacked?
by
Josefjix
on 28/04/2023, 07:16:28 UTC
While analyzing the posting patterns of "martyns" and his alternate accounts, "BlackViruse" and "Blackpussy," I stumbled upon a curious grammatical mistake where the term "ideal" was wrongly used instead of "idea". This error caught my attention since I've never encountered anyone from the English-speaking community who confuses the usage of these words.

It's not an error; it's fairly common among Nigerians; the "Ideal" is mostly used for pidgin English, but the "idea" one never comes to mind.

If you search the board for those keywords, you'll almost certainly link the entire board together. Good luck.

Wait, can you explain why all of you are writing "ideal" instead of "idea"?
Maybe you were going to the same school and your teacher misspelled "idea"?

I just did. We use English and still fail English at school  Grin