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i miss when the internet was full of grammar nazis instead of actual nazis
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.
Capitalize the first word in your sentences and use proper punctuation, citizen.
gramnar nazi’s
Breaking news: people on TikTok are illiterate; water is wet; sky is blue
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.
Woah buddy, I’ma need you to pump the breaks
🤓 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.
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.
I spell lose as lose :3
When I was learning english I used to confuse the spelling though, cause the word lose to me sounds like the same sound as the double o in other words :3. Though once I got used to the weird english spelling rules I fixed that problem. Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
Handy memory trick on that one, the one you want more of has more S’s in it.
Everyone’s throwing out weird mnemonic with alliterative desserts… But it’s just “stressed” backwards.
If you’re stressed, you should have some desserts to calm down!
Native English speaker here, lose/loose are tough ones.
Looking at both words I could see how either one could be pronounced either way.
Thanks French (I suspect)!
It’s useful to keep in mind that written words are merely an attempt to record sounds, and when these spellings occurred these words were very likely pronounced much differently than today.
Neither word is of french origin, im pretty sure :3
Anywho, yeah I know a large part of why english spelling is the way that it is is because of things like the great vowel shift, which came after the spelling standardizations, as well as the mix of germanic, latin, and french (norman) influences all coming with their own spelling rules (as well as one off words borrowing spellings from other languages like spanish), but as someone coming from a language with pretty consistent spelling where loan words are adapted phonetically, the whole mess of having to know the origin of the word to even begin to vaguely grasp at the spelling was an adjustment lol.
I mean, the weirdest spelling related quirk in my native language is that we have letters referred to as “nasal letters” which are not in any way pronounced nasally hah :3 compared to english, it’s a walk in the park
Yes English is a complete train wreck of a language for multiple reasons, not just in terms of spelling and grammar, but every single aspect of the language. I do appreciate that it’s mostly non-gendered, but that’s just about the only win it has. English should have done what a few other languages did back around the 1800s and completely revamped how every single word is spelled to make it all uniform (and achieve a truly phonetic alphabet), but it’s kind of too late for that now.
As a non-binary person I do appreciate the ability to have non-gendered words in english :3 my native language has everything as male or female which is… Ugh
Also funny thing about the spelling reform - we had one here in like… the 19th century, though it was not because our spelling had gotten vastly inconsistent or anything, the main thing that was changed was that a lot of sounds written with polish inspired digraphs (sz, cz etc.) were replaced by czech inspired š, č, ž etc… and also the letter ł which was also a polish influence was removed… which is fair, we didn’t really have a use for it. We also still have the digraph ch :3
Either way, we used to often have things like old 18th or 17th century papers in our textbooks to read, and they were still perfectly readable with the old spelling if you knew those few changes, so it wasn’t a major change, though I do think it was a good one
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Now if only I could remember which way round desert and dessert are…
My favorite deSSert is Strawberry Shortcake.
You eat a dessert and it makes you fatter, just like how it’s fatter than desert
I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It’s a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves and things don’t re-tighten.
The bigger bummer is your fat cells don’t actually go away. They just shrink, so it’s easy to get fat again.
I bet your waste size dropped at least 5 sizes!
I dropped from a 52 to a 38. I’ve since gained 60 of those pounds back, but a lot of it’s muscle.
I kept the fat guy jeans to remind myself of where I started. Body dysmorphia’s a huge issue.
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…
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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?
I am definitely one of those who makes typos and gets mad about this but - the internet needs to get more pedantic about spelling and grammar mistakes again.
Wouldn’t it be great if the internet automatically rejects any post that contains a lie or grammar/spelling error? The internet would get cleaned up SO DAMN QUICKLY! 😄
You laugh. I dream of this.
Same people that think you can target fat.
You can.
But with diet.
As my bodybuilder friends would say - abs are made in the kitchen (for them anyway, rest of us fatties just get less fat in the kitchen).
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
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.
Yeah I see this everyday now, really seems like noone spell’s things wright anymore!
There just dum.
It equals zero cents!
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.
It would help if lose didn’t have the double O “oo” sound so when people who rely on phonetics sound it out they avoid stumbling into the loose trap.
