Why don't people in here know the difference between the words accept and except? Most people seem to use bot

These are the same people who don't know the difference between:

Where & Wear

To, Too, and Two

There, Their, and They're

Which and Witch

And don't even get me started on spelling and grammar! LOL

"On one hand you have the belief that everything on the planet as we know it comes from a single organism. But isn't that the same as the belief in spontaneous generation. I mean, where did THAT original organism come from?" It is not the same as spontaneous generation. This is a simple mistake to make, but spontaneous generation refers to the idea that a complex organism could form spontaneously. This is definitely impossible. What actually happened was a very simple molecule that could replicate itself formed spontaneously. We have already seen with the Miller-Urey experiment that amino acids would have formed spontaneously in the oceans of prehistoric Earth. From there, all you need is something like an RNA molecule. Not even necessarily a modern RNA molecule, but something with the same properties. It's not too far-fetched to believe that something like this could form spontaneously over the billion years of Earth's history before the earliest known lifeforms arose. Then it simply would have started replicating, with slight changes leading gradually to replicators of increasing complexity. Eventually you'd get the first cell. Much later, the first multicellular organism. Eventually you have large and complex organisms like worms, which become even more complex as evolution marches on. The important thing to take from all this is that at no point did something come from nothing. It's all energy exciting the Earth's atoms, causing them to contort in ways according to processes we are just beginning to understand. And at no point did something complex come from something simple. A chain of simple events built on themselves and gradually something complex came to exist.

well my 1st language is Maltese and my second is English but i have never used them to mean the same even when i was the same. they both mean different things. so i cant exactly answer your question. 1 thing i can say there are a couple of stupid people out there, and i doubt if u saw the massacres to the English language i have seen in Malta.

It's because our school system is failing today's kids. They do not teach them proper grammer and language technics anymore. I'm not that old but I went to a private school and sometimes I am very grateful for that because we had to learn these things. It seems today that all the schools want to do is get a student in and out without any problems.

I don't know what they are teaching in school today. But I agree with your statement. They are probably not focusing on the fine points of the English Language. Good Luck ! :)

English is my second language,I was confused about that as well.For the longest time wrote "except money orders ect." on my ebay selling page.Nobody corrected me until my husband looks at my auctions.

I am guessing other people have english as second language as well.Can be confusing,spelling is hard

Accept is a verb, meaning to be positive about something, for example a proposal, except is from exception, meaning something is different.

I didn't read these mistakes myself, but one must have very poor language skills not to know that.

They are not being taught proper English that is true, supposedly as a culture we are so advanced yet our young people seem to be more illiterate than ever.

They do the same thing for than-then.

CT

will some people have different whys their minds may process a word different from the why it is spelled and when this happens they just write it down so that my view of things

Except means to exclude or leave out. Accept means to take or agree to. People just need to watch what they say and how.