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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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I think a lot of people used to pick up vocabulary and spelling from reading, if it wasn't books there were still news articles - they likely read something somewhere every day.
Nowadays they pick it up from social media, so they say things like mortified instead of horrified and weary instead of wary, and spell like shit.
Drives me insane. They think chic is pronounced chick. They think Ms. is short for Miss. And already is not a word.