Just so exhausted with the lack of language skills here

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Honestly, does anyone else just give up reading posts because the command of language is so poor?
Not talking about people who have English as a second language, because you can read through that.
I feel like such a moaner, but it really does make me feel so sad that people cannot truly communicate in their own language.

Why do you capitalise the initial letter of ‘client’? It doesn’t need it.

Autocorrect on my phone capitalises and changes words randomly - I’ve kind of given up worrying about it tbh!

Have you got a magic button that tells you when a poster isn't a native English speaker?

This has to be a joke…otherwise:
I would “have” said….and I’ve “written”….

You are such a moaner OP.
I'm dealing with secondary BC right now and feel quite poorly.

I couldn't give a flying fuck what grammatical errors are in my post.

How do you know which posters are EAL?

I'm not surprised you feel 'sad' OP, I'd feel sad if I was you too. Luckily for me I understand that everyone is different and that people aren't all good at the same things.

How are your DIY skills? Are you able to alter your own clothes? What about your artistic talents? Can you sing? What about sports? Do feel 'sad' about things you aren't good at?

My written English is quite shite tbh but I'm really good at other things.

"Gotten has been in use since the 4th century in Britain and was used by Shakespeare. In Richard III he writes: With much ado at length have gotten leave, To look upon my sometimes royal master's face"

I think it's due a comeback 😉

Horrified? Don’t visit NI or you’ll be in a permanent state of horror. It’s completely acceptable here. In Scotland too I believe. Maybe the person who wrote the letter was Irish or Scottish.

Why would you be horrified?

You do realise that is really unpleasant right? The only person you're itching to correct for is yourself so you can feel superior. It wouldn't actually change anything for anyone. Like I genuinely don't know how people aren't embarrassed to say things like this.

I don’t really belong in pedant’s corner but the “I’m exhausted by xyz” is quite exhausting to read all the time. I almost quit the “Washington Post” because of the number of columnists who appear to “exhausted” by or “tired” of pretty much everything.

I always worry dreadfully about the posters who claim not to be able to understand something written in their own native language because of a wrongly spelled word, or a grammar mistake. Or even two, or three. Or more.

That level of cognitive dysfunction really should be investigated by specialist doctors and, possibly psychologists as there is something clearly very amiss.

Yet they rarely seem concerned at such a public display of ineptitude on their part, preferring to point and laugh at the person who has made the mistake. Or not, in the case of "gotten".

I strongly suspect she was Welsh.

It was a hospital letter not an Elizabethan play.

Our education system is fucked.

It has been fucked for decades.

This is the result.

It's a very normal word that's been in use both formally and informally the world over for centuries. Nothing wrong with using it.

I think it was tongue in cheek!

Of course it’s a joke! 😩

SPAG mistakes by native speakers are a different monster altogether.

Many moons ago, I started a thread titled something like ' When do you write 'should of ' and 'could of' in a sentence?' Followed by my comment about its ubiquity.

Several posters very 'gently' pointed out where I was going wrong and how to remedy it.
That was nice of them, wasn't it?!

@TroysMammy It seems to be a generational thing with gotten. Does anyone over 45 write it?

Even worse!! 😱😱

This isn’t an exam. Most people are on their phone and quickly typing away on their keyboard. So what if someones uses the incorrect ‘there’ or uses a comma instead of a full stop. It doesn’t really impact your life in any way?

WHY can't the English teach their children how to speak? Norwegians learn Norwegian, the Greeks are taught their Greek.

I think some Scottish and Irish people might be over 40. So, yes.

I thought you were in France or something and moaning about ex pats

I'm sure if you really try, you can understand the message people are trying to convey?