What's the story with people being unable to use basic words

Correction to part of above post:

'Drives my head in.' recte 'Does my head in.'

You couldn't of had a worst start

On a seperate note. OP should of went to grammer school.

...corrected that for you.

This is the one that annoys me the most, it's so ubiquitous.

I think it's from people confusing should've, could've etc and thinking that it's "of" instead of "'ve". Drives me mad!

In England people always say "I was sat there" instead of "I was sitting there", I always found that mildly irritating but I can pass it off as an English colloquial quirk. But recently I have heard Irish people saying it like that and that just shouldn't be allowed, not acceptable at all because it's not common here and it should be kept that way IMO.

”COULD OF” - Drives me bananas!”.

"irregardless"

Enough said about that one!

I STILL hate that stupid "Happy out" phrase… Makes no sense!

"Happy Out"… where? Outside?

Think it started in Wexford about 20 years ago - at least that was the first time I heard it used.

"could care less" is disturbingly common in the US.

Here's a rather defensive defence of it (or should that be defense?)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less

Subject line should have ended with a question mark.

I'd agree but as a dyslexic but I find much of that to be an excuse not to try.

I can one up you by saying I have a Master Degree. (How they read my thesis I don't know).

Why did you ditch grammar lessons? I'd argue most English speaking countries avoid teaching grammar.

If you can gain an Education, you can work hard to overcome dyslexia.

The English seem to have a habit of talking about the floor rather than the ground when talking about outside. They talk about dropping something on the floor even if it's the middle of a street or up a mountain. You hear it a lot in football "he's thrown himself on the floor there" etc.

it's instead of its for the possessive form of it is another one you see all the time. I guess it's because nouns take an apostrophe in the possessive and this leads to confusion.

Now, I am well aware of the difference between their and there, but have occasionally read back over stuff that I typed and realised that I had - to my horror - used the wrong one! 😊

Again something your parents should teach you.

There was a thing about 5 years back of Dubliner's saying "it was Trune, he trune it" seems not to be around as much now.

You better not watch any of those traveller call out videos OP,for fear you wood be bangin yer head again a wall after .

Honestly, I don't find it annoying at all. Obviously, if you are misusing commas (the old "Eat shoots and leaves" concept) that can actually change the meaning of your message. But their/there and other common mistakes don't bother me. Lots of people have trouble with spelling, lots of people probably did not get the education they deserved for a wide variety of reasons. As long as I understand what the message is, I'm cool with it.

I'm a solicitor, and I worked with so many people over the years who are so focused on drafting the perfect letter, or perfect memo. These people usually can't see the big picture on the message they are trying to communicate, or indeed the waste of time and money spent on endless drafts. Over the years I find myself judging them way more harshly than I do the person who gets the message across and is efficient in running a case to a timely and cost effective conclusion.

There's a difference between bad grammar and people trying to spell words that they have never seen written down. Done deal is full of them and some are hilarious.

Also, you can really tell a lot about a person by their writing. We used to run an Airbnb and would get booking requests like:

'lookin 4 de place 4 a few nites'

vs

'We are a family travelling in Ireland for a few weeks and we saw your listing and would love to stay for a few days.'

Meh, I wouldn’t worry OP honestly. We all make mistakes, you even did yourself in the OP!

As a slight aside I often find it amusing that some people can offer so little insofar as intelligent discussion they will seek to pick out errors in spelling or grammar of a post they are replying to.

That one is always funny to me. So what if someone uses the wrong version of “your” or “there” if you understand what they meant does it really matter? I don’t think it’s a marked sign of intelligence necessarily and certainly doesn’t take away from someone’s argument.

I also suspect it’s some part due to autocorrect which in my experience doesn’t offer correction when the wrong “your” or “their” is used in a sentence. It’s funny if you stop people these days and ask them to spell a word they can get stuck because you kinda don’t need to know how to spell anymore with modern phones and computers you just need to be able to spell it roughly how it should be and spell check/autocorrect will do the rest.

OP made some mistakes to

cant

Why is important? And what might be easy for you, might not be easy for someone else.

The late, great Con Houlihan said "a man who can misplace an apostrophe is capable of anything".

(my phone mangled that a bit and I was tempted to leave it 😀)