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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.
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…
Lowe’s
languages are fluid and can evolve
Yes but that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. They’re two different words used to explain different concepts. Just spell them and articulate yourself correctly.
Or in this case, devolve.
I am totally okay with this tbh, it’s one of the words that I struggled with when I learned English in school. It makes no sense that lose and loose sound the same.
They don’t. One is lose (loo-zz), the other is loose (loo-ss).
Not sure if you’re joking or completely unaware that they don’t actually sound the same…
I’d wager they sound the same to most non-native speakers in a casual conversation.
Guess what?
All of Italian sounds the same to me, a non-native speaker.
It does sound the same to me as a non-native speaker, but if i can spell it right and understand the difference, you can too. Because there’s tougher language out there, like chinese, that you can say the exact same sounding word but mean different thing. As a chinese myself, that’s how i learn the important of getting the word right.
Yeah, just like news and noose sound the same /s
Haha yeah totally /s
Yeah I see this everyday now, really seems like noone spell’s things wright anymore!
There just dum.
It equals zero cents!
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.
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.
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).
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…”
The cult of ignorance demands you spell poorly.
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 shows 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.
That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just… it can’t all be highlights. Some things need to build!
I’m baitin!
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
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.
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.
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…
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.
The dictionary is infamously slow to change based on common use.
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.
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.
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.
…aaaand now people are using objectively wrong too
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.
No, this dipshittery had been going on far longer than that.
“Nay, þis dipschytterye hadde ben goynge onne farr lenger þan þat.”
How long before the slop adapts and starts inserting typos and such?
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.
🤓 ackchyually…
Water is not wet. Water makes things wet.
Water makes water wet. Checkmate, atheist.
Only if it’s a single atom of water, which would make it water vapor, not water.
If water makes things wet, then it makes the other water wet too.
I loosed it by losing 150 pounds. It’s a biological bummer that one can literally deflate themselves and things don’t re-tighten.
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.
The bigger bummer is your fat cells don’t actually go away. They just shrink, so it’s easy to get fat again.
You loost me on this one.
*lawst
*LAOUGHWPFST
*
:.|:;
Beast Titan build.
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.
