This is quite recent but I’ve been browsing Lemmy a bunch lately and quite often I see extreme grammatical errors.

I’m not talking about like, incorrect stylistic choices between commas and dashes, or an improper use of ellipses or missing commas or incorrect use of apostrophes in its/it’s or in multiple posessive articles or just plain typos or any nitpicky grammar nazi shit like that, but just basic spelling specifically.

It’s one thing when you can’t spell some pretty uncommon words and you’re too lazy to look it up and/or use autocorrect, but it’s a completely different league to misspell very basic words, very recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

And it’s not been an isolated thing either, I’ve seen several instances like that lately.

Am I going crazy? Is it just me?

  • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I double check my writing because there are some “errors” that don’t matter (I stopped caring about “me” versus “I”) and then there are some errors that silently cause me to misinterpret the message

    Like as an analogy if I ask how much milk is left in the carton in the fridge

    • “haf” I know you mean half, no big deal
    • “three” I know you didn’t read my question, frustrating but not the worst thing
    • “full” but actually it was full three days ago when you last checked and this is stale information, and so I don’t buy another carton, then we’re out of milk because of a miscommunication

    You know?