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Because the correcters are blind and/or don’t know what they’re talking about. As an intransitive verb, 乗る never has a direct object, so を is not used – it’s always に.
AnonymousYeah. It’s more like you’re riding on the taxi instead of riding the taxi. This is because 乗る is an intransitive verb, so you don’t generally use を.
On the other hand, we have 乗せる, which is transitive and means “to give a ride.”
Or “to put [someone] on [a vehicle]“. =)
The literal meaning of 乗る, incidentally, is “to get on”. Not “to ride”.
Aren’t the correctors usually natives? Are you saying you’re better than a native speaker, Joel? ;)
I would hypothesise that this particular corrector is a fellow learner. If it is a native speaker, then yes, as you say, evidence would lead to suggest that I’m better than a native speaker. Not all native speakers. Just that native speaker. We’d need more exhaustive testing to prove me better than all native speakers. =P
Alternately, since the sentence we’re talking about was actually not corrected at all, it’s possible they just weren’t paying attention.
I’ve noticed a few non-native speakers doing corrections on the Lang. Generally, not cool.
Overlooking the obvious is very likely. I recently posted my first entry, and I had multiple native speakers overlook a mistake where I typed 周間 instead of 週間. Most curious.
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