54% of Americans from ages 16-74 read below a 6th grade reading level.

[𝔈𝔩𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬]

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed of my country being under 30, without a college education and seeing so many American's whose profession should have them retaining better language and critical thinking skills, but don't.

It's not just that the way we communicate has changed, people are beginning to not be able to decipher simple sentences.

Why do I have to break out so much childish terminology for adults?

[GunsForBucks]

People used to read books to kids for entertainment. Story before bedtime? Sound faintly familiar to anyone?

Today people rely on the corporate TV and streaming. Frankly it is no wonder kids can't read. Parents working two jobs just to keep a roof going don't have time for "care".

All part of the socioeconomic conditioning. Better schools for the "better" people.

[Groogo]

GunsForBucks님이 먼저 게시:

People used to read books to kids for entertainment. Story before bedtime? Sound faintly familiar to anyone?

Today people rely on the corporate TV and streaming. Frankly it is no wonder kids can't read. Parents working two jobs just to keep a roof going don't have time for "care".

All part of the socioeconomic conditioning. Better schools for the "better" people.

Well said.

[Birds]

Rain :)님이 먼저 게시:

talemore님이 먼저 게시:

Brain damage concur over time. All this media and worrying as well increase aging of memory.

The brain compensate brain damage which is why you could have a 54% brain damage and still be a working human.

The brain becomes like a broken memory in a computer. The holes in the memory is skipped. Partitions inside the memory is smaller than in a computer. Once that cell is dead it's not activated again.

I think people also don't realise just how much people do actually know- unfortunately, the majority of it doesn't matter. For example, most people here couldn't point to UAE on a map- nor countries like Singapore, the Philippines, etc etc, but they wouldn't hesitate if asked what quadrant Solitude in Skyrim is- Windhelm? Riften? Markarth?

The issue is like you were saying, we only have so much memory, and the media people are consuming now is so detached from anything worthwhile (concerning real life) that it just produces mindless objective drones, only capable of point-form instructions

more like we only have so many sources for knowledge and the media dominates them all.

[talemore]

Rain :)님이 먼저 게시:

talemore님이 먼저 게시:

Brain damage concur over time. All this media and worrying as well increase aging of memory.

The brain compensate brain damage which is why you could have a 54% brain damage and still be a working human.

The brain becomes like a broken memory in a computer. The holes in the memory is skipped. Partitions inside the memory is smaller than in a computer. Once that cell is dead it's not activated again.

I think people also don't realise just how much people do actually know- unfortunately, the majority of it doesn't matter. For example, most people here couldn't point to UAE on a map- nor countries like Singapore, the Philippines, etc etc, but they wouldn't hesitate if asked what quadrant Solitude in Skyrim is- Windhelm? Riften? Markarth?

The issue is like you were saying, we only have so much memory, and the media people are consuming now is so detached from anything worthwhile (concerning real life) that it just produces mindless objective drones, only capable of point-form instructions

People say they have high IQ

But you can only find out who has a high IQ by telling it by age.

Humans can be instructed to a point where they're very good at jumping through the rings in the circus but they may not remember anything.

[xDDD]

Whatever the reason for that is, I'm sure it's completely unrelated to massive unchecked immigration. /s

[Groogo]

talemore님이 먼저 게시:

People say they have high IQ

IQs are set to greatly improve in the US if they implement the military draft. All of a sudden the woke will know what a woman is.

[talemore]

Groogo님이 먼저 게시:

talemore님이 먼저 게시:

People say they have high IQ

IQs are set to greatly improve in the US if they implement the military draft. All of a sudden the woke will know what a woman is.

It's an attack helicopter. It karen missiles and speaks in bullet point.

[Birds]

imagine a swarm of actual attack helicopter toilets fired verbal bombardments that completely covered your vision with bulletpoints of why you were teh sux and should flush yourselves back home.

now imagine you're an AI and fundamentally perceive the internet the same way.

[Hobbit XIII]

Groogo님이 먼저 게시:

Hobbit XIII님이 먼저 게시:

OP and other Americans have any of you sat down and actually read Mark Twain?

Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn are both wonderful works. My house was also filled with Homer's Odyssey, Swiss Family Robinson, Jules Verne, Robinson Caruso and other famous works. All of these were read in our early school years. Elementary School we called it here in the states. Now, phones and social media has replaced literature and of course the Social Justice Warriors (woke) labeling anyone they can as racist, homophobes, misogynists and bigots. We just referred to it as reading, writing and arithmetic.

Needs to go back to those classics in UK too, people need the sense of perspective beyond the social medias.

[SvarogX]

𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅님이 먼저 게시:

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed of my country being under 30, without a college education and seeing so many American's whose profession should have them retaining better language and critical thinking skills, but don't.

It's not just that the way we communicate has changed, people are beginning to not be able to decipher simple sentences.

Why do I have to break out so much childish terminology for adults?

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

[Rain :)]

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅님이 먼저 게시:

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed of my country being under 30, without a college education and seeing so many American's whose profession should have them retaining better language and critical thinking skills, but don't.

It's not just that the way we communicate has changed, people are beginning to not be able to decipher simple sentences.

Why do I have to break out so much childish terminology for adults?

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

While it's wrong, it's mostly because because English a dumb language. It was supposed to be phonetically accurate- and then they just gave up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkJNstaog8

E: I'm saying for someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, I can understand the phonetics being a mind ♥♥♥♥. "He should of told me" is phonetically identical to "He should've told me"

[GunsForBucks]

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

𝖠̶̶̅𝖨̶̶̅𝖬̶̶̅님이 먼저 게시:

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed of my country being under 30, without a college education and seeing so many American's whose profession should have them retaining better language and critical thinking skills, but don't.

It's not just that the way we communicate has changed, people are beginning to not be able to decipher simple sentences.

Why do I have to break out so much childish terminology for adults?

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

It's probably phonetic confusion from ..

could've
but ignorance makes it
could of
just from how it sounds

[SvarogX]

Rain :)님이 먼저 게시:

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

While it's wrong, it's mostly because because English a dumb language. It was supposed to be phonetically accurate- and then they just gave up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkJNstaog8

E: I'm saying for someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, I can understand the phonetics being a mind ♥♥♥♥. "He should of told me" is phonetically identical to "He should've told me"

Well, its actually not that hard if you SPEAK properly in the first place. I heard a significant difference between " You could have told me " and " You could of told me ".

GunsForBucks님이 먼저 게시:

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

It's probably phonetic confusion from ..

could've
but ignorance makes it
could of
just from how it sounds

Yeah, I am sure all of the native speakers who do know nothing else but ENGLISH since they are born are just confused while me as a non-native speaker has some language gift not doing the same mistake?

Come on. I say they indeed are just ignorant and lazy about it. If you want to speak and write in a clear manner as some " posh " people in England do, then you can.

[Rain :)]

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

Rain :)님이 먼저 게시:

While it's wrong, it's mostly because because English a dumb language. It was supposed to be phonetically accurate- and then they just gave up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkJNstaog8

E: I'm saying for someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, I can understand the phonetics being a mind ♥♥♥♥. "He should of told me" is phonetically identical to "He should've told me"

Well, its actually not that hard if you SPEAK properly in the first place. I heard a significant difference between " You could have told me " and " You could of told me ".

GunsForBucks님이 먼저 게시:

It's probably phonetic confusion from ..

could've
but ignorance makes it
could of
just from how it sounds

Yeah, I am sure all of the native speakers who do know nothing else but ENGLISH since they are born are just confused while me as a non-native speaker has some language gift not doing the same mistake?

Come on. I say they indeed are just ignorant and lazy about it. If you want to speak and write in a clear manner as some " posh " people in England do, then you can.

Except you didn't read what I said.

Rain :)님이 먼저 게시:

Cybernix님이 먼저 게시:

Reading and writing.

For example, most native speakers write 'of' instead of 'have.'
For example, they say, 'He could of told me!' instead of 'He could have told me!'

I am not a native English speaker, but this seriously bugs me as it is plain wrong and not even a dialect or slang of some sort. It's just incorrect

While it's wrong, it's mostly because because English a dumb language. It was supposed to be phonetically accurate- and then they just gave up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkJNstaog8

E: I'm saying for someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, I can understand the phonetics being a mind ♥♥♥♥. "He should of told me" is phonetically identical to "He should've told me"

I didn't say my point was "Should have", I specified "Should've" the phonetic abbreviation that must be the confusing factor. "Should've" and "Should of" are phonetically identical

[Ganger]

Faiyez님이 먼저 게시:

Ganger님이 먼저 게시:

And these days you have people including teachers calling out english (being able to communicate, string sentences together, being polite) and being able to do math (adding up, learning to to do taxes, paying bills etc) as racist, white supremacy or toxic. Seriously guys, don't believe me, look it up on google, bing or youtube.

What are the parallels between elementary education and white supremacy? This might be a topic worth exploring.

I don't know... just seems silly to me. Being able to read, write and do math is essential for everyone, not only being able to read and write but the ability too string complete sentences together.

This is not only a american things, it's happening in the UK as well. Seem the liberals want to create a underclass of people who are unable to communicate effectively or even be able to do sums or figure out how to fully understand money.