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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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There is no way they're being too formal with their writing.
It's not that they're being too formal it seems that they're thinking too formal.
Like they can't decipher things like a multi use word or an obvious autocorrect mistake.
If we were talking about birds and I suddenly started using the word bards you should be able to figure out contextually that I'm still talking about birds.
Edit: also formal isn't the right word. I specifically used fluent because fluently speaking a language means being able to deduce the meaning of a word through context.
Formal is not the word your looking for. Literal. People interpret the words literally. The can't/ don't understand figurative language like sarcasm, symbolism and metaphor.
To be fair, sarcasm specifically can be VERY hard to convey via text or even voice, which is where a majority of communication happens nowadays.