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Yep, sorry. Edited now.



No worries, I just wanted to see whether you wanted to take a subtle swing at medieval power structures.


I have a subtle issue with homophones. :)


I blame English orthography for these troubles.

English orthography also leads to endless stigmatisation of people who mix up the spellings of "their", "there" and "they're" or "you're" and "your" as if they were idiots or can't "think properly". Instead of the reality that they just don't display the class marker of having been drilled in this idiotic aspect of the writing system.


With me the issue is that being blind means that I listen to most words and the spelling is something which I don't always focus on unless necessary. Hence, two homophones are likely to be confused if not written often enough.


Oh, yes, screen readers etc add a whole another level of complication to the mix.




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