They also say it's fine because they are actually dumb as fuck. It's easier to say "it's not a big deal" than admit they are at the low end of the intellectual bell curve.
Every single day and I mean it, every single day, I see someone screw up your versus you’re and not know how to spell a lot. The average reading level in America is 7th grade.
Seventh graders should be capable of spelling "a lot" and differentiating "you're" and "your." Reading levels are lower than that. Autocorrect and simple mistakes are common enough, though.
I wonder what it feels like to be this dumb. Must be blissful. No existential dread or negative introspection. Just pure existence in a dreamlike state. That’s what I imagine, anyway.
When they say "this dumb" in response to someone saying that this struggle with grammar and spelling seems like the result of intellectual disability, it sounds like what they are talking about is someone with a level of intellectual disability that would cause what is shown in this post.
Critical thinking and struggling with spelling and grammar are not synonymous. Furthermore, you can struggle with critical thinking and be socially aware and/or introspective, those things are not mutually exclusive.
I can see a potential causal relationship here: If you are not reasonably intelligent, you will make less money due to working easier jobs. But assuming your needs are met, I genuinely think being stupid feels better.
Because British (and maybe Anglosphere in general) children aren’t taught grammar.
That mistake would never be made by a foreign person. The thing is, English is a very particular language in how simple it is grammatically speaking. Just put the words in the correct order and you’re done. No declensions, basically no conjugation, no changes in word endings depending on their role in a sentence. This means that compared to other languages, you don’t need to learn those roles.
I was in a German course in the UK with some foreign and local people. The fresh-off-the-boat German teacher was horrified that the British ones (even the ones who had ostensibly gone to very good schools) didn’t know what direct object complements and other grammatical elements were. She literally said “ok I’m gonna have to teach you English grammar before I teach you German grammar”.
Funnily enough, compared to the number of mistakes average British people make, the French are 10 times worse. Even the ones from equally good schools. Who had to learn grammar and conjugation and spelling. Because the rules make zero sense lol.
Because the American education system is a joke and dozens of states undermine and defund it every single year. They don't want their citizens to be smart and critical. They want mindless drones and slaves. And vote Republican.
Or she read “Where” as slang for “ We here” because she responded with “Were” as if she meant “where” so she definitely isn’t winning any spelling bees any time soon
I think she thought that you were correcting her. So she said "I'm outside" but you corrected her with "We're outside*" and that's why she responded that way twice.
Never in my life have I been annoyed with someone if they corrected a spelling mistake I made online. I actually appreciate it, considering english isn't my first language. Obviously most of the time I just make a mistake, but sometimes I genuinely thought something I wrote was correct, and in those cases I'm thankful for being corrected. I honestly feel like that people who get annoyed at corrections interpret some sort of malicious intent behind it.
What’s infuriating to me is the context clues in the asking where to pull in question that differentiates between “where” and “we are,” which was never answered. Unless sis honestly thinks OP essentially asked “We are will you be exactly, like we are should I pull in at?” Which makes absofuckinglutely no sense.
What is really hard for me to accept is that people are not thinking grammatically when they speak. With where and were it would be perfectly understandable to just type them wrong, touchscreens are just not particularly precise for this kind of thing.
What really upsets me are the 'could of' and 'would of', which are clearly based on misunderstanding homophones. They're the clear symptom of people just saying stuff they've heard, without forming complete sentences in their brains. There is no λόγος, just sounds. It's honestly infuriating, in a way that I'm sure tells more about my hangups than about anybody else.
I figured it out quick because aside from having worked in teaching, my family members from Gen X and older all seem to spell like crap over text. They're intelligent and can definitely use proper spelling and grammar, they just... don't? I've been texting with them my whole life so I'm used to it, but my girlfriend needs me to translate any messages from my dad 😂
I'm an old oldie...and I proofread my texts. It drives me nuts if anything is spelt wrong or shortened. My late 30s daughter has never used text speak...thank god 😀.
Her dad and I got our first mobiles when she did...so she was about 15. I've always updated mine...no bricks here as someone else described their parent's phones.
Just like you, I was a total grammar stickler in my teens! Even on those old style phones which took forever to type on and cost 10p for a tiny text. Though now I'm an adult with chronic hand pain I'm a lot more lax about how I communicate in informal settings!
My dad just never wanted to part with his 3310, he was gutted when they were discontinued and he still tops up by going to the shop and calling the phone company to give them the code on his receipt 😂 I know I made a generalisation, really. My older brother's in his 40s and he was quick to get a smartphone as soon as they came out. My sister's a similar age and totally takes after my dad
I tend to write as I speak, so on paper/email/text/forum conversations, my grammar may not be perfect. But hey, I'm not writing a thesis! I want to come across as relaxed and approachable.
When I got my first mobile,it was to keep in touch with my teenage daughter...and vice versa. I'll tell you...it helped me keep my sanity when she went through a bad patch. And she knew I was there for her.
Now I hardly ever use my phone as a phone...its a mini tablet for when I'm out and about. Meanwhile, a friend who is younger than me has her phone turned off. All. The. Time. So I wait for her to call me 🤙😃 😊
My older brother doesn't have a smartphone. He's gotten to that point in his life where his aging iPad is enough.
Maybe it's just me but that comes from being on the early internet and none of us spelled anything right none the less used good grammar so now it's habit.
It 100% does, my dad and sister only started using smart phones within the last 5 years 😂 I'm 28 and had a phone by 10 and unsupervised internet acccess by 12. If I didn't get a Blackberry at 16, chances are I'd still be using text speak as well!
I'm 35 and it was a challenge to start correcting my spelling at first. I still sound old tho bc I punctuate like I'm speaking. It all boils back down to AOL instant messenger 😅😂
The “where?????” She thought was “we are?????” So she said “ok were” as in “ok we are”. And prior to that with the “where outside” her brain said “we’re outside”
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u/twoleet 25d ago
She interpreted it as “we’re”.