Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
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Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#2That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#3That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#4That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
I think you're right. I've gone back and read some of my own posts here and winced at what the combination of one-handed typing as I hold onto a handrail on a packed subway plus autocorrect did to what I thought I was saying.
I make an effort to use correct spelling and grammar in everything I write that's longer than "ok i'll check when at office", but sometimes it slips past. People still seem to understand what I'm telling them, though, and that's the ultimate goal.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#5That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
Survivorship bias. You don't often read the notes where Thomas Jefferson jotted "hey martha riding to ftore be back later love you - Tommy".
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#6That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
I call bullshit on you comparing what was obviously a 2000s+ phenomenon with that of closer to the 1800s.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
I call bullshit on you comparing what was obviously a 2000s+ phenomenon with that of closer to the 1800s.
I didn't say 1800s. But also I thought "dictation" meant via a secretary. I guess they meant by voice recognition.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
Survivorship bias. You don't often read the notes where Thomas Jefferson jotted "hey martha riding to ftore be back later love you - Tommy".
Not so sure. After my father died I came across a box of old letters that were sent between he and his friends, from their early college years. Just personal, casual correspondence, which today would be done with a messaging app or email. Even on the short notes, the structure, spelling, grammar, and even the penmanship is excellent compared to what I see people of the same age doing today.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#9That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse. Ima call bullshit on this. Read the published letters of some historical figures.
Activation energy of a letter vs. an email. If you have to handwrite it and it takes ~days to arrive, you write fewer communiques and put more into the ones you do, but a lot goes unsaid.
You see it start to change with the telegraph on down to where we are today.
Re: Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
#10That's just how busy people type. You see it a lot if you communicate with upper managers/Csuite regularly. They don't have anyone to impress in private emails, as long as the message is communicated well enough. Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
> Before smartphones/autocorrect/dictation it was worse.
Not sure I agree. I remember e-mails being capitalized and punctuated.
It's not so much typos and laziness as much as incomplete thoughts and distraction. Communication as a whole has devolved from an e-mail with a complete thought and some details to a text or chat message without capitalization, punctuation or context.
The lack of capitalization and punctuation are just a tell to me that the sender didn't put thought into it.
I can't tell you how many times I get a chat message asking a question. I in return ask questions about context, and explain why I'm asking. Then the original sender gets annoyed and provides context. Then I ask more questions. Then the original sender gets quiet. Then I get an invite to a meeting to discuss with a wider audience.