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Is illiteracy increasing dramatically? Seeing more usage of wrong homophones

I look at comments on various sites and I've seen an increas...
Out-of-control coffee pot
  09/09/26
I use incorrect homophones all the time. It's just something...
gunneratttt
  09/09/26
The English language has evolved constantly over its 1000+ y...
Excitant location
  09/09/26
lol this isn't "evolution", it's just retarded peo...
red lay windowlicker
  09/09/26
That's probably what Æthelred II would say about the g...
Excitant location
  09/09/26
He was right
lex
  09/09/26
flying in the face of all logical expectations, autocorrect ...
exhilarant cowardly boistinker church building
  09/09/26
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Ivory Preventive Strike Center
  09/27/26
im sure it is but proles always wrote like that. more proles...
Razzle theater dopamine
  09/09/26
Buddy is a professor of Necromancy, he says gen Alpha sorcs ...
glittery big-titted parlour
  09/27/26
The "smart" entry level kids from "great scho...
dashing school cafeteria becky
  09/27/26
I’ve noticed this too, especially on Reddit. For all t...
Supple circlehead
  09/27/26


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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:21 PM
Author: Out-of-control coffee pot

I look at comments on various sites and I've seen an increasing amount of people using the wrong "there" (don't care to enumerate the variations) and people using loose and lose interchangeably. I think autocorrect is fucking with young people's minds.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50124992)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:25 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)

I use incorrect homophones all the time. It's just something that happens when you're typing casually and semi-mindlessly. Zoomers usually disable autocorrect and autocapitalize so their shit doesn't seem overly formal. Doesn't mean they don't know the difference between you're and your anymore than when we wrote ur at their age.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50124994)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:36 PM
Author: Excitant location

The English language has evolved constantly over its 1000+ year history; I'm not sure why people feel entitled to decide that it has to stop now

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125024)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: red lay windowlicker

lol this isn't "evolution", it's just retarded people bringing down the standards.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125029)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:41 PM
Author: Excitant location

That's probably what Æthelred II would say about the gibberish you speak

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125031)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:43 PM
Author: lex

He was right

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125033)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: exhilarant cowardly boistinker church building

flying in the face of all logical expectations, autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125028)



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Date: September 27th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: Ivory Preventive Strike Center



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50157109)



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Date: September 9th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: Razzle theater dopamine

im sure it is but proles always wrote like that. more proles in those comments than ever

some of these are worse than others though imo. i can enjoy a "they're" when "their" would be correct but loose for lose drives me nuts. always reminds me of matthew 16:19. very distracting

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50125030)



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Date: September 27th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: glittery big-titted parlour

Buddy is a professor of Necromancy, he says gen Alpha sorcs literally cannot read their Necro. Like they aren't able to.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50157087)



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Date: September 27th, 2026 12:29 PM
Author: dashing school cafeteria becky

The "smart" entry level kids from "great schools" like "Tufts" make tons of mistakes like this. And they aren't even bright enough to consider running the work through our AI tool.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50157095)



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Date: September 27th, 2026 12:40 PM
Author: Supple circlehead

I’ve noticed this too, especially on Reddit. For all their faults, Redditors usually write well and use proper spelling / grammar (hallmark of try-hard Loserness). Now I just see sentence fragments, no capitalization, misspellings, shit that just doesn’t make sense, etc.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5901966&forum_id=2#50157111)