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.

  • NaN@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Drives me insane. They think chic is pronounced chick. They think Ms. is short for Miss. And already is not a word.