Comment by 🚀 SavaRocks
Re: "Has anyone else noticed or felt like the typo where you…"
yeah, these new generations of "people" surprize me every day also
2025-12-22 · 4 months ago
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🗡️ The_Jackal [OP] · Dec 22 at 15:29:
@SavaRocks Being a member of one of the recent generations I was surprised to see this happening more and it feels like I've only noticed it rising the past 3 or 4 years, but it has probably been rising for longer.
I don't know if it's generational; plenty of old folks say strange things, and it's as if waves of stupidity pour over areas.
For a while there was a lot of 'artesian' bread and coffee.
Artesian, of course, is water coming from a deep well.
🗡️ The_Jackal [OP] · Dec 22 at 17:58:
@stack If you don't see the words often and your memory of them is getting foggy I guess I could understand that typo. After being corrected once it shouldn't be hard to remember though. Maybe they found some massive underground stash of coffee.
I don't judge, just am amused by things like that.
My son quietly started a trend at his college some years back by repeatedly saying "I beg to defer" instead of "I beg to differ". A bunch of people he did not know were overheard saying that as his close friends chuckled.
People also seem to have a problem with there and their, even though it's pretty obvious.
As for I/me, don't get me started. It is so weird that so many people don't get it -- and usually in a way that makes them sound like pompous fools.
Original Post
Has anyone else noticed or felt like the typo where you spell the plural form of a word as the possessive case (like typing 'I like cat's') is becoming more and more common?