Comment by 🗡️ The_Jackal

Re: "Has anyone else noticed or felt like the typo where you…"

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@stack I never knew there were that many people who genuinely talk like that. Good God.

🗡️ The_Jackal [OP]

2025-12-22 · 5 months ago

6 Later Comments ↓

🚀 stack · Dec 22 at 05:08:

It was really jarring the first time I heard it! And it was from a high-end realtor (also pronounced 'reelator')

🚀 SavaRocks · Dec 22 at 11:15:

yeah, these new generations of "people" surprize me every day also

🗡️ The_Jackal [OP, Weapons dealer, possibly mutant killer] · 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.

🚀 stack · Dec 22 at 17:08:

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, Weapons dealer, possibly mutant killer] · 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.

🚀 stack · Dec 22 at 19:31:

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.

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🗡️ The_Jackal:

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?

💬 8 comments · 2025-12-22 · 5 months ago