You are now interacting with other nationalities and ethnicities maybe?
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Smart Technology has always been about removing our ability to effectively communicate with nuance and assess reality that's what it's for. Autocorrect so you can't spell, google maps so you can't find your way out of a paper bag without them. People's lexicons have diminished, substantially since 2007. The quantity and variety of expressions used have dropped off majorly. All this connection with people all over the world and we use it to maintain quasi social relationships with people we hardly care about. It's a joke.
In my case, autocowreck is the main reason for incorrect spelling and grammar.
Spelling righte shows stranth of caracter.
Not sure about the trend but I know my absolute bottom tier skillz are language related. in school low grades in spelling, then grammar, then foreign language. At the end of college I swapped transcripts with a friend and his comment was something like. Wow you get pretty good grades, oh. except in spanish. Basically the only reason I stopped getting bad grades in something like spelling is that it stopped being a class.
Can only speak for myself, but I think backspace is probably one of my most used keys, the number of typos I make. Generally, I don't miss these*, but when proofreading or rewriting parts of comments I occasionally leave a word in from a previous iteration or take one out that I meant to leave in, throwing a wrench into the flow.
I can easily imagine that for some people that goes to another level and they might be too tired or stressed to be able to even notice, let alone fix the mistakes they make. There's also some level of short attention span going on and people may not be bothered to fix it because they have to be off to the next piece of content or contributing elsewhere.
* The spell-checking red squiggly underline admittedly being something of a crutch. I've noticed an increase in the number of longer or more obscure words that I'm sure I was getting right before but now not so much. And about once a day, on average, I reckon, I reach for right-click to figure out precisely what I'm getting wrong because I can't figure it out.
Most of the time, I've missed a letter or am woefully wrong, but very occasionally it's not in the built-in dictionary and online dictionaries basically say it's fine. And the-e-en I rewrite to avoid the word anyway. Not everyone's going to do that.
I know it's on your exclusion list, but my phone autocorrects its to it's every time. I have to catch it and backspace to restore it.
Autocorrecting a misspelled word is one thing. Autocorrecting a correctly spelled word for a more common word is just wrong.
[...] isolated thing either, I’ve seen [...]
comma splice.
A while ago I became terribly aware of people writing things like "apostrope's" to indicate plurality. I was pretty convinced that it was a new thing, but I've since found examples of people doing that far in the past! I'm not sure if they were doing it at the same rate but they had been doing it for a while.
I know that some foreign language speakers use this as part of their grammar, but they do so according to a rule system. The people I encounter doing this have only ever known american english and do so without any apparent consistency. If you're going to alter your grammar in that way, at least make it consistent! Like these weirdos. Professionals have standards.
originally read the title as "people's spending" so I uh.. I guess we should add reading comprehension to the list of things people (me) are bad at
imo some of the drivers for today's terrible grammar and spelling stem from a "rush to reply" e.g. people commenting "frist!"
i typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.
Typos aren't what I was talking about, but your autocorrect should take care of it, at least on gboard. I also type everything on mobile. I don't browse Lemmy on my desktop at all.
i typically do not have auto correct on because i tend to type on a lot of tech oriented sites which tend to have a lot of acronyms i dont want autocorrected.
while typing this, i had to correct 3 words.
Almost 10 years ago I began to see this trend online and at work where people were misspelling 'separate' as 'seperate' and I am still irrationally angered by it.
i gut no ider wat ur tlakin bot. i splel prefect.
Just imagine you having to fix a thousand pages of this. I feel your pain.
Honestly I'm not doing much effort to be correct when writing English. As long as people get more or less my point I do not really care
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There is a few words I cannot spell, and I've just given up on them at this point (definitely, infinitely, critisism ).
Sometimes I type too fast and post a comment with a typo, and a few times the edit fixing it didn't federate.