[...] isolated thing either, I’ve seen [...]
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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.
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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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!"
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 typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.
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It's the public school system. It's amazing that our country still functions. I was lucky being private schooled.
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.
English spelling rules, and some vocabulary and grammar, were mostly crystallized around the end of the 16th century, with the form kind of arbitrarily chosen to be (mostly) from southeast England.
English grammar rules and some spelling were asserted by fiat, by linguists who wanted English to be “more Latin.”