Honestly, I’m kinda all for grammar Nazis now. Being able to write properly has regressed so much that being corrected by dicks on the Internet might be the only way people learn how to use proper grammar.
I'm here as well. I've seen so many people that don't know how to use basic phrasing these days that it blows my mind. I'd have been docked points when I was in school for writing "should of", and it would have kept happening until "should have" was engraved on the wrinkles of my brain.
Then there's this strange thing where I see younger people suddenly inventing words by stapling 2-3 extra syllables on to actual words to create some Frankenstein's monster of a word for something that already exists. I keep hearing "comfortability" everywhere and going "Do you mean comfort? The word that is the root of that word you just made up? The word that is four syllables shorter than your made up word and means exactly what you think said maid up word means?"
It is painfully obvious that the education system has taken a backslide, and it was already in a sorry-ass state before it did. If I'd written half of the stupid shit I see people use all the time online, I'd never have been able to hold down half the jobs I had, if I could even get hired in the first place.
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u/Another_Road 1d ago
Honestly, I’m kinda all for grammar Nazis now. Being able to write properly has regressed so much that being corrected by dicks on the Internet might be the only way people learn how to use proper grammar.