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  • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen
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    5 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        4 days ago

        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.

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      Idk. Sure compared to 25 years ago, it’s better, but autocorrect on phones is much worse than 10 years ago.