• I feel alternately sad and disbelieving when I see this one. The poster is either fake, or obviously lacking in a basic education. This goes beyond stupidity, and speaks rather to someone who wasn’t given any schooling, and is spelling entirely by sound. The latter just makes me sad.

    • @tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1726 days ago

      My first impression is that it feels fake because of:

      when kids our on him

      our -> are

      Come try are boy

      are -> our

      Maybe it depends on accent but “are” and “our” are homophones in my accent and if you spelled by sound you’d likely spell “our” as “are” …i cant help but feel like it’s intentionally increasing the mistake counter :(

    • @sparkle@lemm.ee
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      24 days ago

      21% of US adults are illiterate in English, mostly coming from rural areas and predominantly Spanish-speaking areas (Spanish speakers account for only around 1/3 of those illiterate in English on average). My state (Georgia) has an adult English illiteracy rate of 23.6% :)

      And yes, I have known PLENTY of people who write like this (or worse than this), I have too much first-hand experience to immediately doubt this

      On the other hand, it shows how a primary language having very inconsistent&non-phonetic spelling completely fucks up the literacy average… in a language like Spanish, Polish, or Finnish, being poorly literate makes very little sense, at least in the sense of “correctly associating written words with spoken words”; for the most part it’s a binary can or can’t, if you know the basics then you can write everything you say and say everything you read with few exceptions (and even with these exceptions, it ends up being close enough to easily recognize still). You know your writing system is fucked up when spelling contests exist for it.

      • Agreed.

        On the other hand, it shows how a primary language having very inconsistent&non-phonetic spelling completely fucks up the literacy average

        One of my biggest English pet-peeves. The other is “living language” revisionists who argue that language should be allowed to evolve, thereby validating any faddish slang that’s used; and so-called “dictionaries” like those hacks at Merriam-Webster who’ll add anything to their English dictionary as long as one of their editors heard the word used in the radio once.

        OED is the only English dictionary of any repute.

  • @Ballistic_86@lemmy.world
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    3026 days ago

    This is an interesting mix of “horse people” who tend to have money and thus education and a really stupid person. Bravo.

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        1326 days ago

        And very often they’re poor as dirt because they have horses. I analyzed a colleague’s finances with her and the only reason she has to work overtime every week is because of her horses, her reaction was to build what she needs to keep them at home and she then bought another horse because she now has money to spare because she doesn’t need to pay rent anymore…

        • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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          326 days ago

          Saving is for people who don’t want to round the day out having to step through doors sideways because exercising all the horses yourself instead of the staff at the stables leaves you so wide bow legged you occasionally get set up on sticks as a limbo pole.

  • Drusas
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    1325 days ago

    I know there are many people out there who are this level of illiterate, but the title of this makes me relieved that it’s almost certainly a joke post.