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minus-squareJax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down9·edit-26 days agoThe death of literacy makes me sad. Edit: post is riddled with grammatical errors and fucking ‘catastrophy’ — yet I get downvoted. Read a book, something that actually had an editor — then keep reading more books. You will develop literacy eventually.
minus-squareSparroHawc@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 days agoDon’t punish someone for practicing their art imperfectly. Instead of improving their craft, that only incentivizes them to stop practicing.
minus-squareJax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoPractice makes permanent, if you’ve reached a point where you can make political commentary you are far beyond the point of learning to spellcheck.
minus-squareWilson@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down7·6 days agoLanguage evolves. Don’t be sad, be adaptive.
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 days agoLanguage needs to be evolved by people who understand it though. Not by people too lazy to proofread.
minus-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·6 days agoThat shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how language evolves.
minus-squareJax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·6 days agoNone of you dipshits are going to convince me that ‘catastrophy’ is an evolution of the language. You are a fucking idiot if you believe that.
minus-squarenomy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·6 days agoYou just don’t understand what I’m saying because I’m using the newly evolved form of the words.
The death of literacy makes me sad.
Edit: post is riddled with grammatical errors and fucking ‘catastrophy’ — yet I get downvoted. Read a book, something that actually had an editor — then keep reading more books. You will develop literacy eventually.
Don’t punish someone for practicing their art imperfectly. Instead of improving their craft, that only incentivizes them to stop practicing.
Practice makes permanent, if you’ve reached a point where you can make political commentary you are far beyond the point of learning to spellcheck.
Language evolves. Don’t be sad, be adaptive.
Language needs to be evolved by people who understand it though. Not by people too lazy to proofread.
That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how language evolves.
None of you dipshits are going to convince me that ‘catastrophy’ is an evolution of the language. You are a fucking idiot if you believe that.
You just don’t understand what I’m saying because I’m using the newly evolved form of the words.