Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.
They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.
Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.
I definitely see some clear “this is not their first language” posts, but I don’t see a lot of overlap with the semi-literate stuff. They’ll usually be pretty close with a missed idiom here or there, an uncommon word that’s a slightly odd translation, or have some awkward habit on structure that’s pretty consistent but just not quite right in English.
The “can’t read” people are all over the place, without coherent structure, and just pull random interpretations out of thin air.
pretty much every time I see someone end a post with “sorry english isn’t my first language” the writing was native-grade and I’d have never guessed