It seems people can no longer be bothered with adverbs - AIBU?

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I keep seeing comments online in which people confused adjectives and adverbs. For example:
"He's done amazing to get this far."
"It's made different to other ones."
"She talks so loud!"

Can people no longer be bothered to write out the extra "ly" which is usually required to turn an adjective into an adverb? Or don't people know the difference?

YABU - English grammar is hard and teaching is patchy. Stop being pedantic.
YANBU - social media & smart phone auto correct have made people lazy and they should make the effort!

YANBU.

Some of it might be colloquial or regional, but a lot just seems less literate.

Though maybe SM makes public more people communicating in writing where in the past they would have spoken on the phone or in person. More people with lower standards of education and literacy are seen in writing.

And shouldn’t be condemned for being so. There has always been a huge range.

I hate ‘gifted’ even though it’s a proper word! No one used to say it….I suppose ‘I gave him a present’ doesn’t make sense really but I will never gift anyone anything!!

This is a really interesting and thought-provoking post!

I was fortunate to receive a good education, and love reading, and now find grammatical rules and spelling pretty intuitive (sometimes proof-read friends' essays etc) to the extent that I cannot help but notice 'incorrect' use.

...but I've never thought about it from this perspective before...

(I've probably now ironically made several huge mistakes that will be pointed out to me!)

YADNBU, it grates my ears when I don't hear the adverb.

I think this is due to the rise of social media comments, as things go in and out of fashion. For example "it hits different". Which is used all the time on sm, but doesn't actually make sense at all.

I also think a lot of young people don't read as much as previous generations, because there's so many other distractions (like social media, video games, tiktok dances) etc.

Finally, I have noticed that this can be an influence from American English. For example, American's say "you're doing great" , this doesn't sound right...

This is my biggest pet hate! When someone on tv says "she did it perfect," the rest of the family tense up in anticipation of me yelling "ly" at the tv.

I think it’s the influence of American English. E.g. “He did real well”

As a TEFL teacher I do teach the proper convention but let learners know there can be regional variations. They notice that anyway if they watch English language films and series.

Don't worry! Only the people who think they know everything about language do that. Those of us who are fascinated by language, where it comes from, and how it changes over time (and indeed place) don't ever pretend to know it all.
What's funny (as ever with these threads) is that the posters having the vapours over something they don't like, or consider to be wrong, are making far more mistakes themselves. (I was reading on another thread like this the other day something which I imagine is true- people complaining about other people's grammar and spelling tend to be of fairly low intelligence themselves)
One poster has at least 5 fairly serious mistakes and yet complains about others.
@ComtesseDeSpair that is an interesting post and I agree totally.

"It's so fun"
"Needs gone by Thursday"

Aaarrrggghhh!!

I'd say full of A cold, not full of cold.

I do think language is becoming more colloquial than it ever was

Really? I think far less. Accents and dialects are disappearing in English and language is becoming homogenised, which I think is a real shame.

The lack of "to" drives me up the walls.

I'm going golf. Little Tarquin is going scouts and Hermione is going brownies. After that we're all going McDonalds.

I do see a lot of "needs gone" and "need it gone" on the local FB marketplace.

I think social media, smart phone and mobile phone use have made people communicate in written form more than ever before and frequently expose grammatical errors, use of slang and typos. I don't care very much about people writing as they speak except where it impedes understanding.

Don't you mean regularly.

I'd say full of the cold, but many of the other things on the thread I do say, because I'm Scottish. It's nothing to do with lack of education, lack of reading, text speak, or social media use.

Oh goodness, yes! "Needs gone" is a personal bugbear of mine.

That's just it though - having to translate what someone has written into what they (probably) meant is unnecessarily hard work for the reader. It detracts from their key message.

I completely agree that it's important for children to be taught correctly.

I've just got a copy of a book which was given away on a recent World Book Day. In three places it uses "where is my..." for plural items. Eg, "where's my glasses, where's my friends."

What chance do kids have if publishing houses can't get it right?

It wouldn't be a thread about grammar if the OP didn't make an error in the original post!

Does it? Take all five of the novels I mentioned in my previous post as examples. I’m not Scottish, nor from Brooklyn, nor a poor black sharecropper living in the 1960s American South. I can still read each of those novels in their respective versions of vernacular and non-standard English and understand exactly the meaning their authors seek to convey; and also understand that the language they’re written in is a very precise part of that meaning. And I’m hardly alone: they’ve been read by millions of people, translated into numerous languages, extensively academically studied and analysed – from high school level to PhD – critically appraised by numerous people who trade in the English language professionally, and developed into screenplays for highly successful movies with cult followings. There’s no doubt as to their respective key messages. In the face of that, insisting that you cannot understand somebody’s meaning unless they use a very particular style of a language doesn’t exactly speak well of your own abilities of comprehension.

Why is it insensitive to ask a general question?
I do find it strange that it appears to be socially unacceptable to comment on spelling / grammar (even when it might help clarify the writer's meaning) but we don't feel so uneasy about pointing out mathematical / numerical errors.

Perhaps that is it. I do wonder if other countries have the same range, or whether, as a general matter, they take greater pride in their language.

Perhaps written language is becoming more colloquial but spoken language more homogenized? A possible effect of social media. I am sure a lot of children are picking up American accents from programs like Cocomelon.

Until half an hour ago, I'd have said YANBU. However, I've just been confronted with DS's English homework - relative and subordinate clauses. What exactly is the point?

The creeping death of adverbs disturbs me but I'm not sure that the inability to pick out a relative clause does in the same way - or at least not right now.

YABU . Piss off to Pedants' corner and take your condescending attitude with you.

Oh god, I hate this too.

OP, people have spoken like this for, well, forever. I don’t think it’s going to change however much it irritates you.