Their, They’re, and There seriously what’s up?

a reply to: mysterioustranger

It blew me away recently at my local post office when I went to post a parcel and the lady behind the counter complemented me on my beautiful hand writing then said to me but nobody can read that now WTF .

I was shocked when someone put up a old letter they found and wanted help deciphering it , some thought it was Latin , I love showing kids how many letters of the alphabet I can make just from a lazy S as I call it

a reply to: stonerwilliam
Right on stoner! By the way, you have some green in your teeth! I know how to decipher things as you mentioned too. I grew up with Hungarian/German grandparents on my mothers side. They spoke and wrote in German and I had a fun time deciphering this.

a reply to: ditchweed

It is shocking what is going down with the advent of electronic devices in the last generation , people not being able to read , tune a radio or tell the time on a clock. And some of this from 30 year olds who I hardly consider young people , I dread to think what it will be like in 30 years from now if simple skills have been lost already even China is worried many do not know their own alphabet as they use electronic devices and English .

The movie Idiocracy is here now

I especially like the Ebonics "They" for every this, that and the other.
They lost they car keys. They ain't playin they games on me!
How confusing with a lisp!!

kæn eniiwən provaid mii wið a lajikal raſənalaizeiſən æz tuu wai egzæktlii iiŋgliſ speliŋ ſud riimein trapt in ðə 1500's? korekt græmar yusej iz a distiŋkt fenamenon frəm ðii orþagrafii yuzd tuu tranzkraib ænd riikord it.

eksesiv kansern əbaut hau əðer piipal yuuz ðeir libertii, or əbaut hau ðei ekspres ðemselvz, iz aen indikeiſsən əv auþoritarian tendensiiz. wən ſud straiv tuu diifend əðerz friidəmz æz vigorəslii æz if ðei wer wənz on, biikawz ðei ar.

praeterea, etenim, omnes exigere et exspectare debemus propriam latinam educationem et usum a civibus nostris omni tempore. Refer realem educationem!

a reply to: JAGStorm
It is because the internet has replaced books to the extent that people have almost stopped reading, and therefore don't have much idea of the way that words are supposed to look. The result is that a lot of writing is based on "spell as you pronounce", which results in a lot of vagaries owing to sloppy pronunciation, which hampers our ability to communicate with each other (which is why it matters).

I've encountered quite a few people who are unable to work their way through written explanations of complex things, who are positively afraid of written explanations, and demand "clarifcation" via the spoken word. I've had a lot of that trouble with my local surgery.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Have you wondered is the other person Dyslexic Jagstorm and coming down with early stages of dementia and using a tablet computer with auto correct , all the obove apply to me sadly .

In the mid 1970s in the UK schooling system books were published with text speak where my younger half sister went to school .

Most of the vowels were missing if I remember correctly and all this confusion seems to be long planned .

a reply to: Turquosie

Hey, happy Fri to ya! Yep. ✌️☝️👍👋

a reply to: stonerwilliam
Are you thinking of the "initial teaching alphabet"? My mother was using that in teaching for a while. It was meant to be a temporary stage in the process of learning to read, getting pupils used to the idea of "reading words following phonetic rules", before plunging them into the maelstrom of standard English which is full of exceptions to all the rules. The vowels wer not missing, though. The aim was to have a single "letter" for each sound; long "a" and short "a" had different letters, and dipthongs like "oe" and "ou" were converted into one single letter each. Looked odd but just about readable. The controversy was that the transition into ordinary English could be confusing in itself, and the experiment was abandoned. My mother claimed to be the first teacher in the county (Isle of Ely) to adopt the i.t.a. and the last to give it up (from about 1980).

a reply to: JAGStorm

P'raps thar just bin speakin' loike a pirate for thar larst cupla yeerz?

a reply to: DISRAELI

It could well be I know it was early 1970s and I remember being stunned at her school book spelling , The schools in Scotland also changed the gradings and levels for 2 years in my final 2 years at school then abandoned it ,And now nobody has a clue about it when you try and list your qualifications they returned to the O grade standard from whatever that 4 letters were Scse? Cs or what ever they were .

When I went to school first dyslexia was not really known about ,You were just labelled a stupid kid and if you were unlucky enough to write with the left hand and tying your hand behind your back never fixed the issue , well putting the hand in the old style desks with the ink well in it and slamming the lid hard was their next trick
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That was supposed to have been banned in the 1950s stopping kids writing with their natural hand but things change slowly where I stay and they were much older teachers back then .

On the bright side their were no furries roaming the corridors then and only 2 genders were known about and life was a lot simpler back then

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