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On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Poor grammar/orthography

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What do birds have to do with anything?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What about the study of Ents?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Looks up

Everything!

Puts on foil hat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You made a perfect example of the original question there. Emoting in italics like an old geeky chat. I'd bet you're no younger than 35.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

How do you do, fellow geriatrics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Nice try, kid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This doesn't seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven't figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they're is astounding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Rest assured it's not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.

Essentially a third of the country can't read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.