• Slotos@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Nope. You just grow confident to not notice the blunders, and learn to recover fast enough to not persist when it would be detrimental.

    Native speakers making mistakes or not caring to stick to the rules is one of the forces behind languages’ evolution.

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      1 year ago

      Your last paragraph is correct…

      But as a portuguese native speaker, I never once in my life heard somebody use the wrong gender for a noun, apart from non-native speakers and literal babies.