No Stupid Questions

My online grammar and spelling is like a drunkard has taken over my keyboard. Swiping is awful for accuracy

I'm not native English. It's imperfect English or writing in other language that not many would fully understand.

Thats my secret cap, i’ve always had poor spelling

Smart Technology has always been about removing our ability to effectively communicate with nuance and assess reality that's what it's for. Autocorrect so you can't spell, google maps so you can't find your way out of a paper bag without them. People's lexicons have diminished, substantially since 2007. The quantity and variety of expressions used have dropped off majorly. All this connection with people all over the world and we use it to maintain quasi social relationships with people we hardly care about. It's a joke.

U be baader-meinhoffing this shit?

People are dyslexic or not native speakers on here as well. English spelling is insane anyway. People fumble-eff around with giant sausage fingers on small screens. We collectively ruin our sight by constantly looking at screens from a foot away. Mistakes happen. I think I heard the first complaints about bad spelling on the collection of tubes in the late 90s. And we're still here.

Spelling righte shows stranth of caracter.

Nazi*

You are now interacting with other nationalities and ethnicities maybe?

it's the mispeling vyrus

In my case, autocowreck is the main reason for incorrect spelling and grammar.

I feel like auto correct and voice to text aren't as good as they used to be. AI, laziness, I'm more of an idiot not sure who to blame.

"Extream" is an archaic spelling found in dictionaries, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was just autocorrect/swyping. It also seems like 90% of the usages come from HumanPenguin or 1984.

Not sure about the trend but I know my absolute bottom tier skillz are language related. in school low grades in spelling, then grammar, then foreign language. At the end of college I swapped transcripts with a friend and his comment was something like. Wow you get pretty good grades, oh. except in spanish. Basically the only reason I stopped getting bad grades in something like spelling is that it stopped being a class.

I know it's on your exclusion list, but my phone autocorrects its to it's every time. I have to catch it and backspace to restore it.

Autocorrecting a misspelled word is one thing. Autocorrecting a correctly spelled word for a more common word is just wrong.

Can only speak for myself, but I think backspace is probably one of my most used keys, the number of typos I make. Generally, I don't miss these*, but when proofreading or rewriting parts of comments I occasionally leave a word in from a previous iteration or take one out that I meant to leave in, throwing a wrench into the flow.

I can easily imagine that for some people that goes to another level and they might be too tired or stressed to be able to even notice, let alone fix the mistakes they make. There's also some level of short attention span going on and people may not be bothered to fix it because they have to be off to the next piece of content or contributing elsewhere.

* The spell-checking red squiggly underline admittedly being something of a crutch. I've noticed an increase in the number of longer or more obscure words that I'm sure I was getting right before but now not so much. And about once a day, on average, I reckon, I reach for right-click to figure out precisely what I'm getting wrong because I can't figure it out.

Most of the time, I've missed a letter or am woefully wrong, but very occasionally it's not in the built-in dictionary and online dictionaries basically say it's fine. And the-e-en I rewrite to avoid the word anyway. Not everyone's going to do that.

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comma splice.