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Appalling grammar influx

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Schnicklefritz · 03/06/2023 08:22

NC because I am almost certain that I'm going to receive a bashing.

Has anyone else noticed the influx of threads started by posters with absolutely awful grammar? I don't mean mixing up "your/you're" or "there/their/they're". I mean entire paragraphs without full stops, capitalization, "we wasn't/I weren't", "cuz" instead of "because".

Add in standard abbreviations like "wwyd" and "DH/DC", and it makes the posts incredibly difficult to follow and in some instances, effectively unreadable.

It's only the past two weeks or so that I've noticed the increase in these posts. Is it just me?

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FrogsAreMean · 03/06/2023 08:36

Totally agree with you and you’re right in saying some posts are unreadable.

I don’t even bother with the posts that have no new paragraphs, just constant rambling words.

musixa · 03/06/2023 08:35

I haven't noticed an influx - there's always been a variation in standards. I don't judge - you have no idea if an OP might be poorly educated through no fault of their own; have dyslexia or have English as a second language.

Silvergoldandglitter · 03/06/2023 08:34

Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 08:24

we wasn't/I weren't

This is East Anglian dialect. Away with your judgey twaddle.

I'm born and bred East Anglia and didn't know this. Never heard those ever.

MandyTraynor · 03/06/2023 08:33

I've had to name change recently because of a few appalling posts I wrote after too much wine. Not a grammar issue, but it certainly could have looked that way. They made no sense, but I knew what I was trying to say at the time. Very embarrassing.

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Schnicklefritz · 03/06/2023 08:32

@KetoQueen I enjoyed your sentence, but the spelling was too good!

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ADHDDDDDDDBOOM · 03/06/2023 08:32

Yes I have noticed an influx of wld (would) u (you) and similar.

Last time that happened, it was because there were issues over at Nethuns so they had migrated over here. And it showed.

Dolphinnoises · 03/06/2023 08:30

It could be Mumsnet are doing an advertising campaign. Each time we’ve had a big influx there’s been usual internet writing style for a while before the grammar police have either made posters raise their game or had them backing out slowly.

KetoQueen · 03/06/2023 08:30

YES

Along with a complete absence of punctuation which means that sentences run on and on then you have to work out yourself where the natural break would be and the other thing is half the time the sorry tale is a pile of dysfunctional nonsense or a completely pointless thread which drives me mad after all the effort it takes for my menopausal breaks to untangle but at least I suppose you know it’s legit and not done chatGBT performance now that annoys me way more even if the SPAG is fine

kangaroopelicanartic · 03/06/2023 08:29

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a basic standard of communication.

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Schnicklefritz · 03/06/2023 08:28

@PiffleIsTakingThePiss Thus the name change, as I figured this would happen. The text speak is doing my head in!

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PiffleIsTakingThePiss · 03/06/2023 08:26

Lots of text speak 'u' 'ur' etc too. YANBU but you're going to get roundly told off Grin

Goodadvice1980 · 03/06/2023 08:26

Perhaps some of the new posts are AI or chatbot generated?

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Schnicklefritz · 03/06/2023 08:26

@Gtsr443 I'm not from the UK. Didn't know that.

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Gtsr443 · 03/06/2023 08:24

we wasn't/I weren't

This is East Anglian dialect. Away with your judgey twaddle.