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raverbashing on May 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is there an “uncanny valley” effect with s...

I agree.

I'd say I have met a lot of native speakers that, while obviously native, have poor vocabulary skills (and also make some grammar mistakes - but not the ones the ESL students usually make)

It's not surprising to have people that have trouble with words like rotund, pulmonary, saturnine, among others. (Or the usual mistakes like "should of", "it's" when they mean "its", etc)

solveit on May 31, 2022 | [–]

> Or the usual mistakes like "should of", "it's" when they mean "its", etc

Incidentally, these (or at least the first) are the mistakes that only native speakers and very fluent people make.

simonebrunozzi on June 6, 2022 | [–]

"it's" instead of "its", seen it so many times (in writing, of course, usually in an email).

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