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!

Or one might call it having literary standards.

@PAFMO so it's that people are deliberately choosing to merge adjectives & adverbs, rather than not being aware of the difference?
Maybe it is that. I know one person who was taught to read & write properly but now deliberately says things like "I done this." I am guessing that it's because she thinks it's more socially acceptable.

’could of’ and your instead of you’ re really annoy me.
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People are badly educated. It depends where you live and work if it is socially acceptable. You take note, say nothing, but you don't then hand this person a job presenting or talking about anything of complexity.

My written English is not very good, and I need improving. When I was ment to be studying English for my GCSE, I was busy with art.

That's one of my worries; in staying silent about the importance of good language skills, society is effectively writing off so many people.

Correcting someone's expression of English at work is simply not worth it. If they know better, they will do it themselves. If they don't know better or don't correct it, then they've selected themselves out and you would get all types of hell if you tried to change it.

You simply move on and find someone who doesn't have this issue.

A debauched attitude towards punctuation is my bugbear.

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funny what different people find annoying. I get the it needs mended thing but I’m full of cold sounds perfectly ok to me! Obviously a regional thing.

Yeah, me too. An exclamation mark adds a little spice to a sentence - putting loads is like adding a jug of curry powder and spoiling the whole thing. I have a mate who does this, and often wonder how many she would put it she had something really amazing happen. A bear jumped out in front of my car!!!!!!!!!!! I was in Croydon!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I knew it would happen somewhere!

I started out with just grammar then added punctuation as an afterthought, forgetting to make the verb agree.

However, I did start with agreeing that in general life, it isn't that important, just that teachers should be able to use language correctly. I'm not a teacher...

This entirely, I am fed up of reading American everything, there's a language whitewash afoot. My local newspaper talked of "dumpsters" and "reaching out" during a bin strike in Scotland - just naw.

YADNBU

Yy - the SJWs have brought in American words like “y’all” and refer to toilets as “bathrooms”. I find it so irritating!

Also, on the topic of punctuation, people who leave a space before an exclamation mark ! Surely it’s more effort to put a space in? Why?! It’s floating in midair !

What are you meant to say instead of hello?

Do you realise that people who learn English as a foreign language in another country speak much better English than many people do here?

People who write like this don’t speak what used to be called standard English (RP and its close cousins).

Some of them will be writing informally, and will know how to use standard English in writing when they want to.

Some of them won’t.

I doubt this would have been any different 30 years ago.

YANBU. It sounds sloppy and uneducated. But you’ll be told it doesn’t matter, nobody but pernickety old pedants care any more.
But I honestly don’t think that’s true. Many people do care.

Must say my not-so-inner pedant rejoiced when a dd of maybe 10, after tests at school, said, ‘English was OK, Mum, but I did really craply at maths.’ 😂

YABU but not for the reasons you state. For most people posting online is very informal, so they don't see the need to pay attention to grammar rules. Many will be perfectly capable of applying the rules "correctly" for formal writing. Including me!

However, I'm not a fan of having strict grammar rules. I love that language evolves and enjoy looking up where words / phrases came from and how meanings change over time. It makes me smile (inside) when people use "blood is thicker than water" to mean "family first". Life would be way more dull if everything stayed the same.

Mine is 'baby'

How is baby? Does baby sleep through? Is baby teething?

"You did amazing!"

It's bled into the rest of the world from the USA, this new way of speaking, and there seems to be zero awareness of the existence of adverbs.

It seemed to begin with the ear-grating "You did good/great!" and now there are no adverbs of any sort. "The steak was cooked perfect!"

When I’m being paid to write I’ll put in effort and write proper like. On MN it’s too much fun making mistakes that annoy people. Life is so
short to be over concerned with the education standards of others.

*if I’m honest I found that quite hard to write and had to stop and think…

@brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr These are my pet hates too - along with the ever increasing use of "I seen" and "I done" and "if I would of". Even the teaching assistants in DD's school all use these, and that really annoys me. My best friend is from down south and she moved to the north of England a few years ago. Up until she moved, she hadn't really heard anyone use these and she thought it was a northern thing, but I see Facebook friends from all over the country doing it.

I noticed this in covid - "shop safe". No thanks.

Good God this drives me insane. I thought it was an American thing. It hurts my ears!

It all started with X Factor's "you did great".