General literacy levels

[sean]

Maybe it's always been the case, but brought more into focus by the mediums of facebook and texting etc... but does anyone else feel or have noticed that the literacy levels, particularly amongst the younger generations are apalling?

Do they spell stuff incorrectly on purpose as some form of 'netiquette'?

[Andy @ Allerton]

Maybe it's always been the case, but brought more into focus by the mediums of Facebook and texting etc... But does anyone else feel or have noticed that the literacy levels, particularly amongst the younger generations are appalling?

Do they spell stuff incorrectly on purpose as some form of 'netiquette'?

Edited September 14, 2009 by Andy @ Allerton

[cymrococh]

Maybe it's always been the case, but brought more into focus by the mediums of Facebook and texting etc... But does anyone else feel or have noticed that the literacy levels, particularly amongst the younger generations are appalling?

Do they spell stuff incorrectly on purpose as some form of 'netiquette'?

2/10

[John am Rhein]

The better my literacy level gets the worse other people's appears to be

[MFletcher]

I can never understand people who type things like da instead of the. It's only one more letter, how hard can it be?

[Sion]

I have a hatred for people who use this exact phrase; 'hows you?' hows? hows? what is wrong with you?

[RBM]

What puzzles me, with the advent of predictive text quite a few years ago now, is the continued use of text speak. It has to be easier to type the word out correctly.

[johngibo YPC]

Its interesting that the 20-22 year olds we knock about with have a completely different way of texting or talking on msn than people my age. Its only about 6 years difference but my mates my age will always type everything correctly but i need a translator to make out texts i get from some people i know. Yet when we talk in person we are all on the same level

I don't know whether this is becuase they got mobile phones and that when thery were 12/13 rather than later like me. But i agree that it doesn't seem any more convenient most of the time

[_00_deathscar]

Can we blame Ant?

[John am Rhein]

saying 'should of' instead of 'should have' is well trendy

[ManxRed]

Falling literacy levels?

 

That's unpossible!

[_00_deathscar]

saying 'should of' instead of 'should have' is well trendy

 

It should be the forum screening test.

[Will]

Maybe it's always been the case, but brought more into focus by the mediums of Facebook and texting etc... But does anyone else feel or have noticed that the literacy levels, particularly amongst the younger generations are appalling?

Do they spell stuff incorrectly on purpose as some form of 'netiquette'?

facebook is actually spelled with a lower case 'f'

[Tosh]

facebook is actually spelled with a lower case 'f'

QED

[JRC]

saying 'should of' instead of 'should have' is well trendy

So 'well trendy' that there are, shamefully, two examples in Nick Peet's Liverpool articles in the Echo tonight, plus a 'who's' instead of a 'whose'. It's not pedantic to expect better from a newspaper, as opposed to a forum contributor. An email to the Editor is on its way.

[melia]

What's with the letter repetition (e.g. IIII'mmm borrreedddd)? Half of my younger relatives have taken to writing this way on facebook..

[Redkop]

All these which are listed HERE annoy me but they are only the tip of the iceberg of grammatical and bad spelling we are subjected to.

 

If someone sends me a text in 'txt talk', I don't answer it.

[Tosh]

#8 Lay for lie

No: I got dizzy and had to lay down.

 

Yes: I got dizzy and had to lie down.

 

Yes: Just lay those books over there.

 

 

 

It take two to lay!

[Andy @ Allerton]

facebook is actually spelled with a lower case 'f'

 

Facebook is actually spelt with a lower case 'f'.

[cymrococh]

Facebook is actually spelt with a lower case 'f'.

You're really not proving your point here.

[John am Rhein]

You're really not proving your point here.

 

your really not proving you're point here.

[_00_deathscar]

your really not proving you're point here.

 

ur reli nt prvng ur pt here

[Andy @ Allerton]

ur reli nt prvng ur pt here

 

pwnd

[John am Rhein]

ur reli nt prvng ur pt here

 

th q