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recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?
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I'm guilty of all these. I'm dyslexic and have a hard time spelling. At some point the personal dictionary on my phone learns words and I don't get the warning anymore.
There's a few I've noticed in the last seven years or so - lots of Americans can't seem to conjugate "run". It results in horrible sentences like "I used to ran this game" or "I have ran this event before". No idea why that's happening but squirt those people with a plant mister.
It's even worse than people who don't finish the words they're writing "suppose to" and the like. In the brine with thee!
The distinction between simple past and past participle is disappearing in English more generally. I'm curious whether it will be considered quaint to distinguish them before I'm dead.
I'm always perplexed when I see porn videos with titles that use the continuous present rather than the simple present. One would have thought that the simple present would be the basic stuff for English as a second language, rather than the much less useful continuous present.
I speak a couple of languages in which there is no continuous present, but rather they use phrases such as "I sit and study Swedish" to mean "I'm studying Swedish (as in right now, that's the task I'm doing)" or "I am in the process of reading a book". They don't change the form of the verb to highlight this continuous aspect, so perhaps they aren't used to it.
Add to that that the continuous aspect in English is surprisingly complicated and arbitrary. If you try to nail down rules for how and when to use it, you might struggle. 😉 Folks struggling to use it correctly might be overcorrecting or merely confused.
There are, I'm sure, other reasons, but this is enough to account for some of what you're seeing.
No you aren’t getting crazy. I stopped double checking my spelling after Trump became president the first time. Clearly most people don’t mind bad spelling so why bother?
Because it's worth it to be better than they are and it fights entropy
Spelling righte shows stranth of caracter.
Thats my secret cap, i’ve always had poor spelling
it's the mispeling vyrus
I feel like auto correct and voice to text aren't as good as they used to be. AI, laziness, I'm more of an idiot not sure who to blame.
U be baader-meinhoffing this shit?
People are dyslexic or not native speakers on here as well. English spelling is insane anyway. People fumble-eff around with giant sausage fingers on small screens. We collectively ruin our sight by constantly looking at screens from a foot away. Mistakes happen. I think I heard the first complaints about bad spelling on the collection of tubes in the late 90s. And we're still here.
In my case, autocowreck is the main reason for incorrect spelling and grammar.
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.
Nazi*
You are now interacting with other nationalities and ethnicities maybe?
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.
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.