What in the name of God has happened to the spelling ability of the human species?

ILoveYourVibes

I know you can all feel it too. Something slowly slipping away. Something that was once so easy slowly being lost.

A skill, a knowing.

I am looking at you Homo sapiens!

What is happening to us? I once was told that when you went to the Gaeltacht your vocabulary improved but your grammar became worse from hearing bad grammar.

Is it possible the level of grammar and vocabulary we expose ourselves to daily online is so bad it's infecting us?

How do we stop this?

Has it happened to you?

It's happening to me!

RMAOK

Eye dont no what u talkin bout

I no wat your sayin, ppl shud try dat.

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

I no wat your sayin, ppl shud try dat.

Its not just my spelling I think now English is my second language because my grammar is so bad.

I think i am even getting an accent!

Silent Running

Like even if I like agreede wiv like U id like be better then this....like. Djunowaddimeen?

Anto Lynch

Old age and too much cocaine. Thats my excuse anyway.

ILoveYourVibes

I am legit from this point for a whole MONTH not correcting typos grammar spelling on ANY of my posts so by the end of the month we can see how bad I am.



Starting NOW!

ILoveYourVibes

Unless its in personal issues cuz i have to be repecful

Ash.J.Williams

this is what happens when you move away from the church and stop battering kids, they can't spell and are poor at mental arithmetic!


back in the day people could spell but they carried massive mental baggage and scars

ILoveYourVibes

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

this is what happens when you move away from the church and stop battering kids, they can't spell and are poor at mental arithmetic!

:pac:

smilerf

A few people told me that they don't even teach spelling in school anymore
Don't know how true it is

De de de [\b]

....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
BETTER WATCH OUT.



Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle

Anto Lynch

Anto Lynch wrote: »

Old age and too much cocaine. Thats my excuse anyway.

Don't forget the floozues

HeidiHeidi

* it's happening to me










Couldn't resist, sorry!

Greyfox

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

How do we stop this?

We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

De de de [\b]

....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
BETTER WATCH OUT.



Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle

I did nazi see that coming.

ILoveYourVibes

Greyfox wrote: »

We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.

what if its a lot wrong? Like 3 yr old wrong?

kneemos

[Deleted User] wrote: »

De de de [\b]

....The new era of the boards Spelling Nazi is HERE.
BETTER WATCH OUT.



Meanwhile I'm gonna boil the kettle

Boil the kittle.

Sardonicat

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I am legit from this point for a whole MONTH not correcting typos grammar spelling on ANY of my posts so by the end of the month we can see how bad I am.



Starting NOW!

You actually started in your op.

Greyfox

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

what if its a lot wrong? Like 3 yr old wrong?

The you need to sit your leaving cert again

ILoveYourVibes

Greyfox wrote: »

The you need to sit your leaving cert again

I not able for leaving cert!

Has predictive text kind of softened it a bit?..It was way worse a few years ago.. doesn't seem to be as bad the last couple of years..

Emojis on the other hand..

whisky_galore

I wonder if it's just an English language thing, or are French, Italians, Chinese, whoever, stuffing up their grammar as well?

ILoveYourVibes

Deleted User wrote: »

Has predictive text kind of softened it a bit?..It was way worse a few years ago.. doesn't seem to be as bad the last couple of years..

Emojis on the other hand..

No machine known to man can predict my text. No machine alive!

mad muffin

https://images.app.goo.gl/owXPpSPcwupDrL6RA

ILoveYourVibes

mad muffin wrote: »

https://images.app.goo.gl/owXPpSPcwupDrL6RA

This better not be a creepy pasta! Ok you have got my trust will click.

BorneTobyWilde

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

* it's happening to me








Couldn't resist, sorry!

LOL
I wuz jus a bout too post dat

kneemos

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

No machine known to man can predict my text. No machine alive!

My predictive text always predicts the wrong bloody word.


Thinking of sacking it.

Harry Palmr

Apart from my inability to spell correctly what I find a bit disquieting is that Chrome often can't spell either. Probably something to do with it's American cultural baggage.

ILoveYourVibes

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Apart from my inability to spell correctly what I find a bit disquieting is that Chrome often can't spell either. Probably something to do with it's American cultural baggage.

Yeah I am so insecure i just go with it.

dudara

Greyfox wrote: »

We don't need to stop it, google is your friend when it comes to spellings and getting spellings a little wrong is perfectly ok.

Google is useful, but context is also required. A document can pass spell check but be full of mistakes where people have mistakenly used homophones. If you don’t know how to spell in the first place, you’ll put reliance on the technology, with potential for error.

highdef

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Its not just my spelling I think now English is my second language because my grammar is so bad.

I think i am even getting an accent!

Is it possible to speak without an accent? Surely an accent is a de facto when it comes to speaking?

ILoveYourVibes

highdef wrote: »

Is it possible to speak without an accent? Surely an accent is a de facto when it comes to speaking?

I am getting a new one that feels disastrously unfamiliar with English.

Autecher

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I know you can all feel it too. Something slowly slipping away. Something that was once so easy slowly being lost.

A skill, a knowing.

I am looking at you Homo sapiens!

What is happening to us? I once was told that when you went to the Gaeltacht your vocabulary improved but your grammar became worse from hearing bad grammar.

Is it possible the level of grammar and vocabulary we expose ourselves to daily online is so bad its infecting us?

How do we stop this?

Has it happened to you?

Its happening to me!

Me in work asking a colleague to help me find spelling mistakes in your post.

highdef

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I am getting a new one that feels disastrously unfamiliar with English.

Does it sound Asian or French or German or something?

ILoveYourVibes

highdef wrote: »

Does it sound Asian or French or German or something?

Its like a cross between Sofia Vergara and that Russian chick from fair city.

Alf Veedersane

kneemos wrote: »

Boil the kittle.

Bile the kittle.

nthclare

Intit a grate cuntry, I hav a grate stowey fueaw ya

Howz tings.

Ny ting stwange

Any muny in de til

Data butful gurl

Butful kurls

LirW

I asked something once in a local FB Marketplace. My kid's teacher replied in the most awful txtspk manner.
Something died in me that day.

Badly Drunk Boy

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Apart from my inability to spell correctly what I find a bit disquieting is that Chrome often can't spell either. Probably something to do with it's American cultural baggage.

I'm sick of adding words to the dictionary when Google/Chrome tells me I have a spelling mistake. No, my spelling is great! I just don't spell like an Americanisch.

TheValeyard

Den14

Drives me bat sh1t crazy that people are LOOSING their ability to spell!

Shouldn't it be God in the title too?

Church on Tuesday

thier is no standard anymore, noone cares. tks.

yw CoT. Chillin ma bh we.. ...

Greyfox

Den14 wrote: »

Drives me bat sh1t crazy that people are LOOSING their ability to spell!

It there not far more important things to get crazy about

topper75

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I know you can all feel it too. Something slowly slipping away. Something that was once so easy slowly being lost.

A skill, a knowing.

I am looking at you Homo sapiens!

What is happening to us? I once was told that when you went to the Gaeltacht your vocabulary improved but your grammar became worse from hearing bad grammar.

Is it possible the level of grammar and vocabulary we expose ourselves to daily online is so bad its infecting us?

How do we stop this?

Has it happened to you?

Its happening to me!

I've got you!

How Soon Is Now

My spelling and grammar has been ****e since I was a teenager I survived!

ILoveYourVibes

Greyfox wrote: »

It there not far more important things to get crazy about

There absolutely ..is not. This is causing climate change.

blueser

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

My spelling and grammar has been ****e since I was a teenager I survived!

The spelling and grammar/punctuation on this whole forum is frightening. I know the counter argument is "well; it's only an internet forum and you know what I'm saying, so the spelling isn't important". Maybe. But if you're going to the trouble of posting, why not go the extra yard and make sure the post is correct? Even on the first page of AH, there is a thread titled "Are the Kennedy's cursed?" Now, I'm assuming that most folk would know the difference between "Kennedys" and "Kennedy's", so I'm at a loss as to why someone would be happy/content to post that. I'm assuming it's not lack of intelligence, as the Irish education system is widely seen as one of the best in Europe.

ILoveYourVibes

topper75 wrote: »

I've got you!

:eek:

Wut do i do wut do i do??