Yes extremely brand new phenomenon.
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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Why can nobody read or spell anymore? Wtf is happening
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 months ago
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Yes, fenomemon, what he said!
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Surely they must mean pheromones.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I recently learned misspellings and the pendants who wrote about them is one of the ways we reconstruct ancient pronunciation.
So. Really people who couldn’t spell in the past were heroes ;)
darvocet@infosec.pub 5 months ago
ChatGPT said:
Great question — and kind of a loaded one, right? It definitely feels like reading and spelling skills have taken a nosedive in recent years. There are a few reasons people often point to:
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Tech dependence: Autocorrect and predictive text mean we don’t have to think about spelling anymore. Same with grammar checkers. It’s like outsourcing our brains to our devices.
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Less reading for fun: People, especially younger generations, tend to read less traditional material (like books or long articles) and more short-form content (texts, tweets, memes). That impacts vocabulary and attention to proper language.
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Educational shifts: Some argue schools have moved away from foundational skills like phonics and spelling drills in favor of broader literacy or test-focused approaches. Others say students aren’t getting enough one-on-one help, especially in underfunded schools.
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Language evolution: English is constantly changing. Spelling gets looser, grammar rules shift, and new words enter the mix all the time. Some see this as decline, others as evolution.
But what’s your take — are you seeing this in schools, at work, online?
Squorlple@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank you for thinking for me. I was afraid of doing that for myself.
(I get that your comment is tongue-in-cheek, not sure everyone else will)
bss03@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I was about to downvote the AI slop, but your reply gave it enough context that Imma leave it alone.
lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Ironic that you’re using ChatGPT when the answer is quite literally ChatGPT
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 months ago
People had bad spelling before chatgpt
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Bad grammar as well. I see posts all the time where people don’t even put periods at the ends of their sentences.
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 months ago
Yes a two year old tech broke people’s brains 20 years ago. If chatgpt broke spelling what broke your concept of causality?
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Everyone expects the LLMs to do it for them
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 months ago
Yes people stopped learning to spell because of a technology from the last 2 years. Ha ha.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Look at what community you’re in
easily3667@lemmus.org 5 months ago
So shouldn’t you be trying to be funny?
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have no shame of never having been a good speller. I went through school without spell-check and I get by, but heck, spelling bees aren’t a things in many languages.
Ya know, because they HAVE a spelling system which they bother reforming to stay up to date, and not 10 in a trenchcoat.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Gen A got left behind on spelling and grammar. Too much of it that they use is automated, they find grammar to be lame, and thanks to our “pass kids or lose funding” system of public schools they all just get to coast through while not really learning much.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah,.my Gen A kids can’t read at all. They only know half their letters…shameful
ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not to put too fine a point on it but whose fault is that?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Danged gen z/late millennial parents not teaching their kids the alphabet before/during kindergarten.
Lol
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s a joke, bro. They’re not in school yet.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Gen A?
bss03@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Alpha, the one after Gen Z, which is after Millennials, which is after Gen X, which was named that not because it was the 24th, but because they didn’t have a good name so they used X as a placeholder for an unknown name.
Generations are slightly bullshit tho. Birthdate definitely matters, but it more of a continuum / spectrum than discrete generations.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
There’s definite bleed over , and the differences are loose generalities than facts, but there’s definite patterns that emerge between music, fashion, and technology.
Like how gen Z and especially A can’t really use computers or understand file structure well, or that mellennials are the last gen who mostly know cursive. Or blow anti bully gen z is compared to earlier gens.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 months ago
They should name the next generation gen Y because they missed it. It wont create any confusion at all
can@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Gen α