I do not see the connection between kids using slang and illiteracy. I’m guessing you never use(d) any yourself?
Also good luck prohibiting kids from the internet lol
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Their parents give them devices so they don’t have to deal with them. That’s how this slang spreads to them. Do you think 6-10 year olds devoloped “mew?” It was grown ass “influencers” and it spread through media.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
You are aware that 6-10 year olds spend time around adults and other kids older than they are right? Did you never pick up anything from an older sibling or kid at your school?
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The unhinged ramblings of a chronically online person.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Uh uh
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
And slang didn’t exist before phones and the internet.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
- Slang spreads offline as well
- The devices were TVs for a good while not too long ago
obinice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do you mean half of the world’s children, or half of the children in your own, unspecified country?
Literacy in my country is over 80%, which is still too low in my opinion, but fast better than half, thankfully.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Literacy, in my country, which is specified because it is the origin of the slang in the meme. You really thought you had a gotcha, there, didn’t you?
s_s@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“Kids can’t read” is certainly a take. 😂
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
If everyone should learn to read, it would not only ruin writing but thinking as well.
—some embittered philosopher probably
Sidhean@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What a “damn kids these days” quote
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Let’s start with you then.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Done. I don’t have any children and am not using a device to occupy them.
In all seriousness, this outright angry reaction is really surprising. People should be angry that their children are illiterate, but I suppose if they were, the children wouldn’t be.
can@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Using slang doesn’t mean they’re illiterate dawg
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Slang is actually a better way to communicate. You can communicate more, in a shorter amount of time, language is fluid, luddites gonna Luddite.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I didn’t say or imply that. The spread of the slang is over media they consume because parents are using devices as babysitters. Them being illiterate means they’re illiterate, dawg.
newsnationnow.com/…/students-cant-read-education/
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Who’d have thought?
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The amount of people with no kids that have strong opinions about how children should be raised is like the people with no uteruses that have strong feelings about abortion and pregnancy, or white college kids who have strong opinions about what words and phrases should be offensive to minorities. There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion, but the arrogance to think they have something to contribute to that conversation is exhausting.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
As the population of people raised on the internet increases, you’ll see far more anger responses to the idea that being raised on the internet is bad for you.
Nobody wants to believe they might not have done it right.
That being said, kids generally do dumb things, and your initial comment seems a bit harsh for something as silly as rizz tag.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 7 months ago
There’s a correlation that these kids are spending hours of their time on the internet (that’s how this slang spreads to them) and the fact they can’t read. I don’t see how it’s harsh to point it out, I just think maybe it hit too close to home for some folks.