Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it’s just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.
I think it’s partially because I don’t really hear speech in my head, so the jump from “it’s” to “its”, for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.
I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn’t happen.
I’ve definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes “I can’t read this 🙃” and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.
It’s definitely more than it was 10 years ago. Even so, I don’t wanna block people. I just want them to know more about the stuff they use every day. Everyone deserves to have the ability to convey their ideas effectively.
It’s not a “trend.” It’s a small subset of the population that can VERY EASILY be blocked.
we need to put them in the bikini bottom spike rollers
oh no someone accidentally put an apostrophe where there shouldn’t be one
they must not be seen again, ever
Eh, as someone with hyperlexia, it’s just a bit frustrating trying to read non-standard English. It sometimes takes me a while to figure out what the user actually meant when using the wrong written form of a homophone.
I think it’s partially because I don’t really hear speech in my head, so the jump from “it’s” to “its”, for example, is not obvious to me unless I slowly read it out loud.
I know English is a silly language with even sillier rules, but my brain expects it to be written out a certain way and stops parsing if that doesn’t happen.
I’ve definitely blocked at least one person who had extremely poor English on here before, but not out of spite, simply because they brought me no value beyond just wasting my reading time until my brain eventually goes “I can’t read this 🙃” and gets frustrated. IIRC they were writing in very abbreviated English with a ton of typos and homophone mistakes.
Is this Smorty slander?
…maybe!
Sorry Smorty, I just can’t understand ya :(
If a person’s post isn’t good enough to proofread, it isn’t good enough to read.
And if they proofread it and don’t catch the error, they’re either a bot or a moron, and I’m better off seeing neither.
It’s definitely more than it was 10 years ago. Even so, I don’t wanna block people. I just want them to know more about the stuff they use every day. Everyone deserves to have the ability to convey their ideas effectively.