Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.
They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.
Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.
I don’t know man, but I’ll tell you this- I went to the UK to see a punk show and it got cancelled, so I went on the band’s IG to see if there was a post as to why. There was, and as I tried to read some of the comments from users on the post my mind actually melted from how fucked up the spelling was. Not abbreviations, but just a shocking inability to spell very basic words. It’s concerning
I think a lot of people used to pick up vocabulary and spelling from reading, if it wasn’t books there were still news articles - they likely read something somewhere every day.
Nowadays they pick it up from social media, so they say things like mortified instead of horrified and weary instead of wary, and spell like shit.
Drives me insane. They think chic is pronounced chick. They think Ms. is short for Miss. And already is not a word.
sometimes I can’t be bothered to fix spelling mistakes, especially if I’m on the go or the person I’m in an internet argument with isn’t worth the effort, and I don’t know why I’m bothering in the first place