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I find the people who are all but illiterate in English actually grew up in the United States and went to school here. It's just plain laziness on their part. People have to make an effort and sadly most of them don't.
That is what JoAnn is talking about.
It is worth bearing in mind that being able to comprehend another writer's meaning is as much a part of being literate as being able to write correctly. I agree, we should try to figure out what people are trying to express, and if you really can't (and you don't like to ask) you're free to move on to the next question without comment.
I have been known to privately point out a mis-spelling, not to be petty, but because if a person Googles or otherwise searches the term "Medicaid leans in the state of X", you're going get bad or at least incomplete information.
I am eternally grateful that English is my native language. I cannot fathom trying to learn it otherwise.
I once had to dictate the spelling of the word "thoroughly" to a mover who was a native speaker of Hebrew, a completely phonetic language. He looked at the word and said "REALLY, lady? That is insane!!"
97, couldn't find am appropriate category so just clicked on one.😊
I know I will make spelling mistakes even though I will proof-read several times, but I have an excuse, I am an old timer :)
I think it's a case of plain old dumbing down and everyone being forced to accept a lower standard on everything. It's easier to not make an effort.
Too much time is taken up reading something over and correcting your mistakes. That's takes a second. Why bother?
People don't know how to write anymore either. Now it's just scribble on a paper. I think back to the times of George Washington and how beautiful people wrote back then. They didn't have a pen or a marker. They had a quill and an ink well.
Society no longer forces anyone to make an effort and do better. This would be why we see people wearing their pajamas in public. A lower standard.
I wish I could show you my Dads birth certificate. Its done in the most beautiful cursive. Like you see in those old documents u mention. Dad was born in 1927.
Thank you for making this statement and opening this conversation JoAnn!
A person cannot expect to get good, clear, concise comments to address their issues if their post is senseless to begin with.
Lea, I agree about clarifying posts that make no sense.
I know the post JoAnn is referring to about employment and the poster just asked "When you gonna call for interviews?" Me being a SA, responded with "When you gonna apply?" I found the disrespectful tone of someone looking for an interview worthy of a SA response. The crap attitudes of people looking for work nowadays just makes me sick. This poster was obviously well versed in English, gonna is a slang word that wouldn't be used otherwise.
Anyway, we all need to give more grace because we all need more grace.
I also noticed with a couple of my relatives. They will add a period after each word in a sentence. I have seen others on Facebook do the same. Is that a device problem?
And even though we now have smart phones with a keyboard and auto correct a lot of people still type the shortcuts that became so common back when we didn't, in fact I've been told that using punctuation and proper sentence form is actually frowned on in some circles.
There was a member, she may still be on the forum, who copied a post and pasted it to a word document and put in the puncuation and corrected the wording so she could understand what the poster was saying.
I always put double spacing to break a paragraph, wonder if I should use triple spacing to break that paragraph. I know reading a very long no break paragraph I always lose my direction... [sigh]