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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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excelledyourself · 03/06/2023 13:13

It's only the past two weeks or so that I've noticed the increase in these posts.

YABU for this part only.

RampantIvy · 03/06/2023 13:25

I'm from Croydon as well @LakieLady and @NeverDropYourMooncup. Most of my class lived in New Addington. I also had friends from Shirley so I grew up with those accents.

willWillSmithsmith · 03/06/2023 19:19

LakieLady · 03/06/2023 10:38

I'm not sure it's even a Cockney thing.

It's quite common in Croydon, where I come from and some of my in-laws still live. They don't speak like that, but my SIL's husband does, as do some family friends and neighbours.

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I spent forty years in Croydon and no one said ‘you was’. We might be a bit Sarf London at times but everyone I knew or worked with spoke properly (and I was state educated).

willWillSmithsmith · 03/06/2023 19:22

@LakieLady I should have said hello from one Croydonian to another 😁

SweetiePi3 · 03/06/2023 19:34

I also hate poor grammar and textspeak. With so much technology, having your sentences and spelling sorted there's really no excuse.

Reading good books build vocabulary, spelling and sentence construction.

Apparently the tabloids know their readership, not more than two syllables to a word or five words to a sentence.

LakieLady · 03/06/2023 19:43

willWillSmithsmith · 03/06/2023 19:22

@LakieLady I should have said hello from one Croydonian to another 😁

I moved to Sussex more than 30 years ago, and doubt if I could find my way round Croydon now. And a lot of the bus routes have different numbers, so that would have me stumped as well.

I get a little nostalgic when I see the Croydon skyline in the bit between the programmes on ITV though.

willWillSmithsmith · 03/06/2023 19:45

LakieLady · 03/06/2023 19:43

I moved to Sussex more than 30 years ago, and doubt if I could find my way round Croydon now. And a lot of the bus routes have different numbers, so that would have me stumped as well.

I get a little nostalgic when I see the Croydon skyline in the bit between the programmes on ITV though.

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Ha me too. Left over twenty years ago have no desire to live there again. No family left there now either, all moved or passed away.

LakieLady · 03/06/2023 19:48

The starting of sentences with "So" seems to be a relatively recent thing to me. I've noticed it on here for a while, but I recently heard someone say it. When spoken, it sounds as though it's used as an emphasiser, but I'm not sure if that's why.

SweetiePi3 · 03/06/2023 21:11

Relax OP! 76% of readers agree with you..

SweetiePi3 · 03/06/2023 21:21

Jourdain11 · 03/06/2023 09:38

I think your completely UR and obviously a grammer snob some people isn't interested in where a full stop goes they just want to talk about interesting currant topics like Phil Scofield I don't understand what you're problem is with that it's always complete possible to read the thread and some people doesnt have access to education outside of London.

I can only hope that your post was deliberately riddled with poor grammar.

LaPerduta · 03/06/2023 21:22

Catchasingmewithspiders · 03/06/2023 11:38

I get my spelling corrected sometimes. I'm visually impaired and even when I point that out people still like to moan about tiny spelling errors. It's pathetic.

As for the whole 'how can someone think infront is a word' inbetween is a word so why can't infront be? Language is constantly evolving and changing and often what pedants moan about is the natural progression of a language. Infront might be one person consistently making a mistake. But if English did evolve in such a way that infront was recognised as a word eventually really what would the problem be?

Inbetween is not a word.

Nor is:
Alot
Abit
Incase
Eachother

However, today and tomorrow were originally "to day" and "to morrow", and an apron was originally "a napron", so I do see your point.

Macaroni46 · 03/06/2023 21:30

Jourdain11 · 03/06/2023 09:38

I think your completely UR and obviously a grammer snob some people isn't interested in where a full stop goes they just want to talk about interesting currant topics like Phil Scofield I don't understand what you're problem is with that it's always complete possible to read the thread and some people doesnt have access to education outside of London.

Brilliant! 🤣

mosiacmaker · 03/06/2023 21:37

Re the advertising point, for the first time ever I am seeing constant ads for mumsnet on Facebook - so maybe that’s drawing a lot of badly grammared plebs in :D

AllyCart · 04/06/2023 18:25

LakieLady · 03/06/2023 19:48

The starting of sentences with "So" seems to be a relatively recent thing to me. I've noticed it on here for a while, but I recently heard someone say it. When spoken, it sounds as though it's used as an emphasiser, but I'm not sure if that's why.

It's even better when it's spoken in a sentence that ends with a rising inflection ('uptalk') so that it also sounds like a question.

"So I was chatting with Sarah yesterday?"

It is mind-bending and causes me to have to pause momentarily to process it at times.

It's as if there's a bit missing before the sentence - something that explains why they were chatting with Sarah - and then apparently it's also question as well.

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