2019-10-25 at 10:03 PM UTC
Have you ever met these people? Like they are just so removed from reading anything they've forgotten how to spell basic words? I think there's probably not a lot of us like that here, as we all spend time online. You don't find a niche website like this without having some comprehension of the English language.
But then there are those people who are just stunningly bad at it. Perhaps not even through a lack of intelligence, but simply a lack of exposure to reading in general.
A while back I was trading someone in Pokemon (best game series ever) and wanted a female dratini named mailwoman, since it evolves into a dragon carrying a mail bag. Dude spells it 'mailwomen'. Like, he's just so fucking stupid he accidentally made it plural.
Another time I had somebody misspell caffeine as 'cafene'. I don't get how you fuck up that bad.
Sometimes I dyslexia on words I know how to spell. But then I see the correct spelling and I'm like, "Oh yeah, that's it." Some of these people are misspelling with fucking autocorrect on.
Just imagine the Chinese nationals who were illiterate before Mao standardized the written language with pinyin and simplified characters. You don't even have a chance to misspell or look up online. You have to ask somebody, maybe guess based on some of the radicals (the individual strokes/shapes) but otherwise you just don't know. Yet, there are people who learned and put in the effort.
So with all this technology just... how? Latin based languages are so easy. Everybody here in the US went through at least 13 years of having English classes so tell me, HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???
2019-10-25 at 10:29 PM UTC
I've met beaners, and they generally have a difficult time learning to spell correctly. Their IQ average is around 87. Hope this helps.
