My Fb bugbear

Oh that really “gets my goat”, almost as much as “3 draw chest for sale” and “wether”

Our local council is apparently miss managed…

Casdon

Our local council is apparently miss managed…

By whom? Miss Manners?

Almost certainly Miss Take.

I only really use FB any more for a craft group, but my bugbear is being asked every time I log on, ‘What’s on your mind, Witzend?’
I so badly want to reply, ‘Mind your own bloody business!’

Witzend

I only really use FB any more for a craft group, but my bugbear is being asked every time I log on, ‘What’s on your mind, Witzend?’
I so badly want to reply, ‘Mind your own bloody business!’

Crafters who wonder if they have the right number of stitches on their 'boarders' !

Let me know if your coming.

Someone on Mumsnet, the other day, asked if children still go "Trickle treating" for Halloween

You alot a lot! Even on GN.

Such a shame that the English language has been decimated by the English themselves. If you take a trip to India, for example, you will see how well, even the humble rickshaw-wallah speaks. His diction won’t be perfect, but he will be grammatically correct. Our education system needs an overhaul. Just saying….

Decimated?

Maybe check out the meaning of that before ridiculing others, and look at the placement of commas in a sentence?

Sorry - I really don't like coming over all 'English teacher' online, but these threads are so horribly snooty and unkind.

crazyH has a point. My ex husband was Greek and his written and spoken English was much more grammatically correct than in the UK.

I recently saw someone offering a “Chester Draws” for sale on our Nextdoor group.

crazyH

Such a shame that the English language has been decimated by the English themselves. If you take a trip to India, for example, you will see how well, even the humble rickshaw-wallah speaks. His diction won’t be perfect, but he will be grammatically correct. Our education system needs an overhaul. Just saying….

Yes, I'd probably say about 10% of what I read on the local FB page has been mangled or misspelt crazyH!

Mangled - def: ruined or spoilt before anyone questions the use of that term.

Disclaimer
"Any mistakes I make are entirely due to fat finger syndrome or autocorrect.

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It works in other languages too. My DD studied German at Uni and married a German. Her grammar is more accurate than his though she is not as fluent.

ferry23

Apart from the ubiquitous "should of", our local Fb groups are generously littered with people hoping that

"this is aloud, if not then delete". Or "this shouldn't be aloud".

I realise this is slightly off piste as it's spelling but I had to let off steam somewhere.

Carry on ferry23 and take no notice of the thread police, this is very funny.

Especially if one of us makes a blooper ourselves 😂

There are some spelling and grammatical howlers on Fb. Lightens my day sometimes.

Sarnia

There are some spelling and grammatical howlers on Fb. Lightens my day sometimes.

I've seen a few on the local FB page already this morning 😀

Grandyma

I recently saw someone offering a “Chester Draws” for sale on our Nextdoor group.

Ah yes, the famous 'chester draws' often appear on FB Marketplace. I think I posted before on here about the woman on one of our local residents' group who was looking for a 'long more'.

All of this gives the impression that correct English is no longer taught in schools. So much is verbal, rather than written. It must be very confusing for children who are constantly exposed to the American version of English, particularly through the internet.

All this is rather hard on those of us with dyslexia and other mental and physical disabilities, that mean that the route from brain to finger tip goes oft awry.

I speak as someone, who combines dyspraxia, with numb fingers and a physical finger 'stutter' that means I often end up with double letters, whre I thought I had typed one.

Yes, I do proof read, but refer you back to my dyspraxia.

I have proof read this post several times, however I am sure it contains at least one or more grammatical, tpographical, or at times, skipped words.

People also seem to stand in ‘que’ s nowadays, ‘our’ becomes ‘are’ and ‘ were’ becomes ‘where’.
I know what you mean, MOnica, but I think a genuine dyslexia or dyspraxia caused mistake is obviously different -looking from forumspeak!
Also, mum2three, that would be grand if only spoken English were being used correctly, but, to me, the constant use of ‘ I’m like’ when describing communication, ‘like’ being used every second word, ‘basically’ and ‘literally’ being used constantly, and many other things, make so much English language painful to listen to.
I think that in schoole the emphasis may be on the content of writing rather than the grammar or spelling, and it’s from social media the sloppiness originates.

If people have dyslexia or are poor at spelling why don’t they talk into the device