Comment on Genital Horse for sale
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
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.
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 :(
You’re probably right. I’d rather that you were right; like I said, a troll is less depressing than the alternative.
But not entirely unheard of, especially with older rural farmers. I think my grandpa finished 5th grade before he started working.
21% of US adults are illiterate in English, mostly in rural areas and predominantly Spanish-speaking areas
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.
dogsnest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ya, this is bate; no one is thes bad, evrey misteak seams delibrit…
cornshark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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dudinax@programming.dev 5 months ago
coulda done ‘quay’ for ‘key’
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
Maybe. But if you image someone with a deep accent, only fundamental reading skills, spelling words by sound… if you read it out loud it almost sounds rural Kentucky, or Tennessee.
huginn@feddit.it 5 months ago
Gelding is what they mean and a 1 character transposition happens by accident all the tiem.
sxan@midwest.social 5 months ago
Yeah I know what they mean; I’ve owned horses before. It’s that they transpose multiple times, and I can’t imagine mispronouncing that.
rikudou@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Interestingly enough, it often maeks the same sound.