Be it your best friend, your dog, cat, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, and all that exists in between. How did you meet them?
Be it your best friend, your dog, cat, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, and all that exists in between. How did you meet them?
I met my wife on IRC. She was attracted to the fact that I could spell. That was 25 years ago.
The standards were different back then
My ex-wife said she knew she could trust me because I used :) after a message.
:)
Wow, you do seem trustworthy! Same late 90s/early 2000s timeframe?
Spelling was one of the few bits of information you could get about a person without them directly telling you, so it’s interesting that even a “face” is enough in those circumstances.
Late 2000s. You can tell a lot by the way someone types. Though we also divorced, so your mileage may vary.
If you mean that most people write even worse now than 25 years ago then yes 😄
I’d say the opposite, at least online. More people can type now than there were 25 years ago, and autocorrect on phones is mostly good nowadays.
25 years ago the people that were online were sitting behind a PC, not swiping on their phone and hoping the autocorrect got it right. So every typing mistake was an actual typing mistake on a real keyboard by an actual person. The use of language online has definitely gone downhill when phones entered the picture.
I get what you’re saying now. I only meant that spelling and grammar have improved. As far as the quality of the writing itself, yeah, you may be right.
Oh yeah, the tools to help you with that have gotten much better, I completely agree with that.
Idk. Sure compared to 25 years ago, it’s better, but autocorrect on phones is much worse than 10 years ago.