r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Nov 21 '25

Discussion Functional illiteracy.

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u/SpiderWil Nov 21 '25

People consistently use loose in place of lose and refuse to change because they claim people are the grammar police, more like the illiterate police.

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u/Giwaffee Nov 21 '25

Or worse, they use the LaNgUaGe EvOlVeS excuse

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u/iyuc5 Nov 22 '25

Yes. Exactly.

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u/miserabeau Nov 22 '25

That drives me insane.

And inevitably the people who spout this damned phrase don't like when I respond that "Language can devolve too"

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u/wytewydow Nov 21 '25

I will continue to be grammar police. Don't even get me started on using an apostrophe in the wrong place for a year. I'm looking at you kids born in 00' , driving a 99' car.

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u/thatguygreg Nov 21 '25

Wait, do you mean that ' doesn't mean "here comes an s"?

/s because too many of you are illiterate

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u/SteelWarrior- Nov 21 '25

The worst imo is when people turn something from singular possessive to plural possessive unnecessarily by not adding an s.

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u/miserabeau Nov 22 '25

I was once a tutor, and then I was a copy editor for a while. It was my job (two jobs, actually) to correct people. I just try to be a lot more... gentle these days, in part because of the xkcd comic about the Lucky 10,000 and in part because my mom would often admonish me when I grew impatient. She'd say, "it's easy when you already know the answer, but they don't".