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Older people of lemmy what is some nuance sayings or typed on the net that you would like to have explained to you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why do old people always follow the same rules of syntax and grammar?

Just kidding I’m old and I want to know why young people mangle english so much.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

bcuz its qwiker

[–] RadicallyBland@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Stupidity, laziness, memes, twitter, AAVE

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

I think it’s probably an attempt to be unique. Our written words have a massive forum of eyes on them that was never achieved before in human history. So we all wanna be unique? Unsure but that’s my guess. That and it’s possible humans inner monologue is being displayed more accurately and with less fear of repercussion.