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

Best ones are the folks who still cannot grasp that ‘you’ can be singular and plural… and their variations include use, yous, youze, you’s and yiz…😖..

Have seen it written in work emails…

The people who are saying grammar doesn't matter, so long as it can be understood may be right, up to a point. But often the understanding depends on the reader and the writer being confident about what the other means when they use certain words. If there are too many errors readers might just skip your argument as being too much trouble to figure out.

Also, and more to the point, especially on social media, how you write is what people know about you. You may be a gorgeous hunk, but if you can't be bothered with how you write, that's all others know. If I see someone say 'been' when its obvious they mean 'being' I will understand, but I will also automatically find their opinion suspect. Not entirely reasonable, but that's how it is.

If I were to go onto the motors forum and write about a 'Feet' or a 'Susooky I would be mocked and ridiculed and no-one would have any respect for any opinions I might offer on the subject of cars. Is that any different to people using garbled grammar and spelling in an environment where they are trying to communicate?

The 'dyslexia' excuse is a cop-out a lot of the time, if someone has dyslexia they are going to confuse all sorts of words, not just been/being, there/their/they're and so on.

Surely this is more of a trivial annoyance than a CA topic?

There are lots of words that sound the same but people don't realise that different spellings have different meanings, like complement and compliment, or principle and principal.

What bugs me the most though is when people pronounce this: * like it's a French cartoon character.

Perfect people need to realise they are sharing the Internet with people with a wide range of learning difficulties

Having said that I met a Polish fellow recently with the thickest Tipp accent that at first I wasn't sure he wasn't Polish. I guess that's what two decades of hanging around the marts of Tipperary does to you.

Someone did a study on that recently in the UK. They wanted to find out why some Polish immigrants adopt the local accent very quickly, whereas others, with similar English language ability, continued speaking it in a Polish accent. The conclusion was it was down to the immigrants intent to settle in the UK permanently or not. The ones who intended to eventually return to Poland tended not to adopt the local accent. Whereas the ones intending to settle in the UK did.

Do you have an issue with human beings acting like human beings? Everyone learns correct grammar in school but human beings make mistakes sometimes, decent human beings understands this.

you know what really aggrivases me? Them immigants.

They want all the benefits of living in Ireland, but they ain’t even bothered to learn themselves the language.

no way, really? 🙄

I think that comes from Holland and Belgium, they use it a lot. I've been in the company of an Indian girl for a few days, she lives in Ansterdam and is badly afflicted with it.

As she has an Irish boyfriend, she has the "me hat, me shoes" sorted. At last night's card game though, when she said "is it me turn", as a proud Dub I had to explain why only that one was wrong 😀.

Might not be a basic word but it was pointed out to me years ago that “fulsome” means “insincere” instead of the more generally held interpretation of “comprehensive”.

So if someone is fulsome in their praise of something, they’re really being insincere.

I wish that hadn’t been pointed out to me as it now annoys me intensely every time I hear it misused.

About two years ago we had a very long lecture during an in-service day from one of Ireland's leading experts in dyslexia. She was very condescending and strangely self-righteous, as if we (a room full of second level teachers) had been in the habit of beating students for poor spelling. I think she absolutely believed she was delivering brand new knowledge to a benighted west of Ireland school.

Anyway. She pronounced it 'dick-slexia.' All the way through, at least once in every sentence. She rattled on about "the dickslexic brain" and "students coping with dickslexia" and "adapting methodologies to suite dickslexic students."

This is her JOB! And she can't say the word properly!

That's like a paleontologist whose favourite dinosaur is a velocirafter!

Bad grammar doesn’t effect me anyway

"I'm just after being to the shops" is enough of a head scratcher for them.

Could you be more pacific?

I don't no what's going on here

Just pacifically those examples or are there others?

Some people have great difficulty with then and than - given the different pronunciation and the fact that they sound the way they look, that one is a little surprising.

Confession, I always typed irregardless

The inability of some to understand the difference between ‘advise’ and ‘advice’ is one that always annoys me.

Has anyone mentioned people using dribble instead of drivel yet?

It's quite popular in these parts. 😛