I feel alternately sad and disbelieving when I see this one. The poster is either fake, or obviously lacking in a basic education. This goes beyond stupidity, and speaks rather to someone who wasn’t given any schooling, and is spelling entirely by sound. The latter just makes me sad.
My first impression is that it feels fake because of:
when kids our on him
our -> are
Come try are boy
are -> our
Maybe it depends on accent but “are” and “our” are homophones in my accent and if you spelled by sound you’d likely spell “our” as “are” …i cant help but feel like it’s intentionally increasing the mistake counter :(
You’re probably right. I’d rather that you were right; like I said, a troll is less depressing than the alternative.
But not entirely unheard of, especially with older rural farmers. I think my grandpa finished 5th grade before he started working.
21% of US adults are illiterate in English, mostly coming from rural areas and predominantly Spanish-speaking areas (Spanish speakers account for only around 1/3 of those illiterate in English on average). My state (Georgia) has an adult English illiteracy rate of 23.6% :)
And yes, I have known PLENTY of people who write like this (or worse than this), I have too much first-hand experience to immediately doubt this
On the other hand, it shows how a primary language having very inconsistent&non-phonetic spelling completely fucks up the literacy average… in a language like Spanish, Polish, or Finnish, being poorly literate makes very little sense, at least in the sense of “correctly associating written words with spoken words”; for the most part it’s a binary can or can’t, if you know the basics then you can write everything you say and say everything you read with few exceptions (and even with these exceptions, it ends up being close enough to easily recognize still). You know your writing system is fucked up when spelling contests exist for it.
Agreed.
On the other hand, it shows how a primary language having very inconsistent&non-phonetic spelling completely fucks up the literacy average
One of my biggest English pet-peeves. The other is “living language” revisionists who argue that language should be allowed to evolve, thereby validating any faddish slang that’s used; and so-called “dictionaries” like those hacks at Merriam-Webster who’ll add anything to their English dictionary as long as one of their editors heard the word used in the radio once.
OED is the only English dictionary of any repute.
I know there are many people out there who are this level of illiterate, but the title of this makes me relieved that it’s almost certainly a joke post.
GENTILE!
They mean gentile, not whatever it says now.
Was a bit worried there for a sec.