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

highdef · 02-08-2019 01:30PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:31PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:32PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:33PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:34PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:37PM

kneemos wrote: »

Boil the kittle.

Bile the kittle.

nthclare · 02-08-2019 01:48PM

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 · 02-08-2019 01:50PM

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 · 02-08-2019 02:02PM

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 · 02-08-2019 02:21PM

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Den14 · 02-08-2019 02:31PM

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

02-08-2019 02:36PM

Shouldn't it be God in the title too?

Church on Tuesday · 02-08-2019 03:12PM

thier is no standard anymore, noone cares. tks.

02-08-2019 03:33PM

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

Greyfox · 02-08-2019 03:46PM

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 · 02-08-2019 04:02PM

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 · 02-08-2019 04:04PM

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

ILoveYourVibes · 02-08-2019 04:33PM

Greyfox wrote: »

It there not far more important things to get crazy about

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

blueser · 02-08-2019 04:33PM

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 · 02-08-2019 04:34PM

topper75 wrote: »

I've got you!

:eek:

Wut do i do wut do i do??

ILoveYourVibes · 02-08-2019 04:35PM

blueser wrote: »

as the Irish education system is widely seen as one of the best in Europe.

Is it though?

We dumb. I mean we not brexit dumb but we dumb.

paleoperson · 02-08-2019 05:29PM

I have never understood how people could have any trouble spelling. However I'd much rather be a bad speller and remember more of what I read.

02-08-2019 05:32PM

whisky_galore wrote: »

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

Happens with German anyway. You hear them complain about how even newsreaders sometimes use incorrect grammar. Dass/das for example. I think genitiv vs dativ was another one.

02-08-2019 05:43PM

Not spoken as krunklich as it once was so. No matter what AUDI car maker would allude to in their ads.

Greyfox · 02-08-2019 06:08PM

blueser wrote: »

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.

Why bother? Only a grammer nazi would care about a tiny and almost silly thing like a comna on a message board. I'd nearly prefer to put it in the wrong place just to show how little I care about small errors

Atoms for Peace · 02-08-2019 06:09PM

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

Rubberchikken · 02-08-2019 06:10PM

spellings dont bother me.
what i dont like is 'i was sat', 'i seen' etc. that can be a bit tooth grinding.

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-08-2019 06:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Shouldn't it be God in the title too?

Indeed! God is everywhere...

Fourier · 02-08-2019 06:18PM

Happens in other languages as well. Younger Greek people are often criticised for having poor grammar, messing up the case system, etc.

It's also part of how languages change. Grammar considered correct today was like "Should of" in Middle English.

Redneck Reject · 02-08-2019 06:31PM

Aynuthir brellyunt mynd deztroyd bi thee publik edukashun sistem.

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

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