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Are you talking about English-native people when you mean normies? Is the whole world plagued by gibberish, meandering sentences and ghosting?


Native English speaker here.

The number of times I’ve returned to a message I’ve left in a slack/forum thread to find typos, missing words etc is embarrassing.

I can’t imagine my emails would be any better.


It's actually spelled "embarrassing".


If this was reddit I would of made a silly comment


Sorry, being pedantic about spelling here: it’s “would’ve”, not “would of”.


If they do, then I would agree with them.


I'm talking about English-natives, ESL, and Polish people, as my experience is limited to the languages I can read well enough to tell what's typo or careless writing (or autocorrect on the phone + not giving a frak).

Extrapolating from the Internet experience, however, I believe it's likely the whole world is plagued by gibberish. Stuff like, to use a recent real example, "hey i dont see your emails in orgs SENT AILFOX", which I was asked by the recipient to translate to real language, and which turned out to mean "Hey, so I am an impatient idiot and couldn't wait 15 seconds for our janky SaaS mail interface to load before shooting you a passive-aggressive message".

(Whenever I start thinking too many good thoughts about humanity and people in general, I get shown stuff like this to be reminded that niceness and good communication exist only in sci-fi shows.)

I'm not sure what you mean by "ghosting" in this context, but if you mean the situation where you ask more that one question in your message, and the recipient silently ignores all of them except the least important one, then yes, that's something I witnessed in both Polish and English from people from all around the world. I assume it generalizes too.

As for meandering sentences, that's a different subject to being careless and not giving a frak - but there's a reason summarization is one of the most popular uses of LLMs.


hey yea many speak like this yea no time 4 books apols

By this, they mean, “Hello. Many people write like they speak, not in a lengthy way. It happens due to a lack of time, do you agree? Nevertheless, I apologize.”

Then again, it's still extremely poor communication whether they put it in an email subject or body.


I'm not that picky. I'm okay with missing punctuation, or not capitalizing the start of sentence, and such - I write like this myself all the time, though on IMs specifically (where it used to be common to press <enter> at the end of a thought, not at the end of a sentence). I'm okay with occasional typo.

I'm not okay with text that's hard to impossible to parse due to the sheer volume of errors. And I'm not okay with lack of care behind sending "write-only" messages. Surely, if the sender read what they wrote, they'd realize that "yea no tim 3 bokS APSL" is not comprehensible. It's merely decodable, with significant effort.

(Notice the difference between your example and mine is that yours lacks the distinctive set of typos/errors made by someone who types on a phone, badly. In fact, guessing what kind of device one uses is helpful - but sometimes insufficient - in decoding the gibberish :).)


Even if the spelling is on point, often, it's hard for me to understand what they mean. Like that books to them in that context means “writing volumes”. I'm not picky either, but language stops serving the purpose of communication when there is no apparent message in the words, doesn't it?

If the spelling is wrong, there's almost no communication taking place at all, jus gibberish, as you say.




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