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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.
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.
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.
the dumb led by the dumb
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?
Once it’s looseded, nobody knows where it goes.
For most ladies, it sheds off during bouts of bingo at the community center.
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.
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.
This is a pet peeve of mine, I see “loose” used incorrectly all the time.
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.
gramnar nazi’s
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.
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.
🤓 ackchyually…
Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.
Water makes water wet. Checkmate, atheist.
Only if it’s a single molecule of water, which would make it water vapor, not water.
If water makes things wet, then it makes the other water wet too.
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.
Merriam Webster updated the definition of literally to include the “informal” figurative definition in 2013.
Now I use “objectively” because literally doesn’t literally mean literally in the dictionary.
Which is stupid, because the reason it’s used that way is for irony. To be funny. If the word is literally defined as figuratively, then it kills the entire reason it was used in the first place.
…aaaand now people are using objectively wrong too
Yup. And sometimes bad means bad and bad means good, but bad still means bad in the dictionary so unless I’m in an casual discussion where slang is acceptable, bad still means bad.
Unlike literally which is now defined as literally or figuratively in the dictionary as of 2013.
According to Merriam-Webster they included its non-literal use in their dictionary since at least 1909.
Well I went back to the Merriam Webster page from 2010 and all the news articles from 2013 about changing the definition of literally are objectively bullshit, so I was wrong.
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It’s changed massively in recent decades.
Just because it had been used occasionally in the past is irrelevant (notably in metaphors or hyperbole). If anything, those literary uses strengthen the denotaton of the word.
1530s, “in a literal sense, according to the exact meaning of the word or words used,” from literal + -ly
The dictionary (OED) is built around common usage and clearly shows common usage for a long time.
Just because illiterate Kardashians use it incorrectly doesn’t mean the rest of us should.
You are wrong.
Getting upset at people using literally in a figurative manner is popular these days, but it isn’t based on an actual change in usage. There are actually dozens of other words used euphemistically as intensifiers in the same way (‘totally’, ‘absolutely’, ‘fantastic’, ‘amazing’), but no one seems to mind for some reason.
The dictionary is infamously slow to change based on common use.
It is a bugbear for some, irregardless of when the first example was documented. Loose/lose has the potential to be such an annoyance. For some people.
The word “new” can carry a connotation of “recent” but it more literally implies “the latest version.” For all intensive purposes, I did not mean to imply the controversy about the metaphorical use of “literally” was a recent development.
Fair enough. My comment wasn’t aimed so much at you, I just like pointing out that the use of literally as an intensifier has a long and prestigious history.
Also, really sorry to do this to you, but it’s “all intents and purposes”, not “intensive purposes”.
Also, irregardless isn’t a word if we’re being hardcore grammar Nazis here…
How long before the slop adapts and starts inserting typos and such?
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.
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…”
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 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
That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just… it can’t all be highlights. Some things need to build!
I’m baitin!
The cult of ignorance demands you spell poorly.
You loost me on this one.
*lawst
*LAOUGHWPFST
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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.
I was actually corrected on this not too long ago, and I am happy to report that I now remember the correct spelling!
You ready to take on accept vs. except now?
How about affect and effect?
Effect causes shit to happen and affect is the cause from shit happening
You’re gonna want to reverse that.
Or “the reason is that” instead of “the reason is because”?
I have David Foster Wallace to thank for this little gift of constantly hearing a very common grammatical error of little consequence.
