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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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[–] davidalso@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok so in defense of dumbasses, we don't always understand the question. Eg, whose left? In those cases we don't want to make your clarify the question and drag things out, so we give you what we hope is an unequivocally clear response. It comes from a deep-seeded fear of miscommunication resulting in too many mailboxes with their flags on the wrong side or whatever. We apologize for the pedantry, though. I get that it's annoying.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When we're driving typically left means left.

[–] Slowy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Depends which direction you’re coming from though

[–] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now we're starting to see another problem that might be at play when people say "I'm not getting answers to my questions"

[–] davidalso@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

One key to happiness for me is to start from the assumption that I've been unclear.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Not if we're in the same car.