Would of/could of/should of

[Getamoveon36]

Please make it stop.

AIBU?

They do not read books or other printed materials.

Instead, they read each other's posts on SM, along with very poorly captioned reels, etc. They absorb the ubiquitous mistakes and in turn spread the poor spelling and grammar themselves.

I suspect they never had correct contractions drilled into them, or proper use of its and it's, or there, their, and they're, or how to use an apostrophe for the possessive case. But the big problem is lack of reading.

I've recently been seeing a lot of "60's, 70's, 80's" etc. on FB which I am finding increasingly irritating.

I assume it's because people know there's an apostrophe in there and automatically put it before the s (making a plural into a possessive - a very common mistake actually) rather than putting in place of the missing characters. '70s '80s etc.

I've even seen "1980's" though so who knows the reasoning there.

@SoreAndTired1

Time to pressure Education Departments in England to bring proper English back to the curriculum.

I wholeheartedly agree with you on that. Standards of English have slipped and I am sure that much of it is to do with social media - as pps have already noted. However, the word gotten became obsolete in England 300 years ago. It is still used in Canada and America as their language was isolated at that point in time. It is the equivalent of saying "see you on the morrow" instead of using the word tomorrow. Perhaps I should tell the Department of Education to include that as well.

I've even seen "1980's" though so who knows the reasoning there.

That could be correct though, what was the rest of the phrase?

Yet your post implies something other than what you imagine.

Google 'comma splice', then please strive to avoid teaching this glaring error in your job as a TEFL teacher.

YANBU.

Yet your post implies something other than what you imagine

Another one looking for an argument, what's wrong with you?

Three cheers for outwith 👍👍👍

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