My version of this is “casted”.
The past tense of cast is cast.
Inde Navarrette was not ‘casted’ as Rogue in the X-Men, but she was cast in the role. I’m sick of hearing illiterate idiots use that word every time some sort of movie news comes out.
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This spelling has been around for a while now and it seems like it is here to stay. I hate it so much.
When the arm fat gets loose, where does it go?
For most ladies, it sheds off during bouts of bingo at the community center.
Once it's looseded, nobody knows where it goes.
Does no one think it's weird how OP is copying and pasting other people's complaints here?
We're not talking to the person who is annoyed. OP isn't venting. They're just bringing threads of negativity to the fediverse here and turning this place into reddit 2.
You are commenting on administration and procedure. What do you think of the common spelling error? It's hardly negative unless you see the world darkly.
Ragebait makes the internet a worse place and that's all this is. Just riling people up about a non-issue because the original post got a lot of upvotes. OP is a spambot.
It's also very hypocritical to me how a community that's so anti-AI (for the record, I agree) has no problem with other types of stolen content. Reposting someone's work without credit is fine as long as it doesn't touch a model, I guess.
"Noone" is another one I've been seeing recently. Should be "no one".
Less common but more confusing is using "are" for "our".
More young people should be mad about the shitty education they got, instead of taking correction as a personal attack.
We couldn't do a lot for my son, but we made damn sure he could read and write. He read well above grade level throughout school.
i miss when the internet was full of grammar nazis instead of actual nazis
Capitalize the first word in your sentences and use proper punctuation, citizen.
I miss when the Internet was full of grammar Nazis instead of actual Nazis.
FTFY. I hope that helps.
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People who proclaim others are Grammar Nazis generally may need to focus more on spelling and less on cheesy melodrama.
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Two others I mourn the death of, as in, it's more often done wrongly than not, at least on the Internet:
"Led" as the past tense of "lead": I basically never see it any more. People just use "lead" for the past tense; and
Singular "die." People just use "dice" for both plural and singular. Though I occasionally see plural "die." I hate this.
the dumb led by the dumb
die vs dice was dead IRL among non-TTRPG crowds long before the Internet was adopted by the masses.
It might be possible that dice took over in usage because most people are never introduced to the concept of dice being singular. Very few mainstream dice based games from my childhood used less than two dice: Monopoly, Yahtzee, Farkle, Risk, Parcheesi, Backgammon. Trouble is the only one I remember that used a single die and that game didn’t even let you roll it.
Breaking news: people on TikTok are illiterate; water is wet; sky is blue
Woah buddy, I'ma need you to pump the breaks
It's not just tiktok, I see people here (and everywhere) misuse "anymore" all the time these days. It needs to follow a negative!
Similarly, everyday is an adjective. Every day is when something happens daily.
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I've encountered a surprising amount of seemingly intelligent, successful, people recently who of their own admission don't read books. They just watch short videos, maybe a movie, and read social media.
I'm not a researcher but I expect that their vocabulary is stunted as a result.
But they're so weirdly proud about it. Like a defiant 12 year old who doesn't want to do his homework.
I've had a respiratory specialist with over a decade of experience tell me he doesn't like reading and now doesn't even like putting time into movies. He says there's no need when you can see the highlights on TikTok and they show you the best parts of the movie in a couple of minutes without having to sit through boring parts. All of this was unironic with him excitedly showing me how great his TikTok feed is.
I've told him that this is like having a single bite of a meat patty and thinking you've "eaten a burger".
That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just... it can't all be highlights. Some things need to build!
I'm baitin!
that is somehow depressing as fuck. I mean, worse for them - they're denying themselves so much, but also, for what it says about society. fuck
Yup. My kiddo reads A LOT, and his lexicon is wild. He mispronounces things since he's only ever seen it in writing, so we have fun with that.
I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story "the lathe of heaven". Someone privately messaged me after to say "great book. BTW, it's pronounced..."
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This will literally be the new literally, I guess.
Spelling conventions have taken quite a hit in the age of automated subtitles. We're devolving to the 1600s where this was more vibe based. I think there is also an element of wanting to show human frailty in content so no one suspects you of pushing slop.
No, this dipshittery had been going on far longer than that.
"Nay, þis dipschytterye hadde ben goynge onne farr lenger þan þat."
Nothing has recently changed about the way people use the word literally. The figurative use of literally has been used in famous works by the likes of Dickins, Twain and at least one of the Bronte sisters, and was first noted in an English dictionary in 1769 - people have literally been using it that way for at least 250 years.
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Fun fact, the current pronunciation of "lose" likely comes from people in the past confusing it with "loose"! Quoting the OED:
The regular modern English pronunciation representing Old English losian would be /ləʊz/; the standard English pronunciation /luːz/ seems to be due to association with LOOSE v., which in some contexts (e.g. to loose hold) closely approaches this verb in meaning.
Otherwise it would probably be pronounced as /ləʊz/ (similar to nose, pose, close, etc.).
So people in the past doing the conflation - totally fine, accepted, and normal. Because that's what you learned from the start. But people now doing the same kind of conflation - unacceptable, illiterate, stupid. Because that's new and different.
People are afraid of change, who knew...
But people now doing the same kind of conflation - unacceptable, illiterate, stupid. Because that's new and different.
Sure, BUT have you ever considered that [your generation] is the bestest generation and every generation that came after is weird, dumb, and bad?
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I've been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don't want anything 'woke' or 'political' or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.
So it's not the kids' fault, it's not social media's fault, it's not even the teacher's fault. It's pearl clutching, conservative, anti 'woke', horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.
I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you're going to end up with poorly educated children. Who would've thought?
Come on, it's a little social media's fault, too. They also benefit from these kids staying stupid and unquestioning. I agree with everything else you said, though.
They do it for engagement, half the comments will be dimwits correcting their spelling.
And almost all of the comments here are acting like OP isn't just reposting ragebait from reddit so I guess the fediverse can't really dunk on tiktok
It’s never going to happen as modern English is six small children in a trench coat but it’d be lovely if there was a spelling reform like German went through. While there are one or two quirks (long/short unspelled vowels, no one pronounces -ig properly, Berliners insist on being weirdos), you can generally know exactly how a written word is pronounced in (standard) German.
Yeah I see this everyday now, really seems like noone spell's things wright anymore!
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I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It's a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves and things don't re-tighten.
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