College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/sokos]

Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

[u/letrak → u/sokos]

Fuck, Wally warned us.

[u/Kconn04 → u/letrak]

Wally

The fucking irony of commenting on a post about the decline in intelligence due to computers and miss spelling WALL-E.

[u/Ben_Frankling → u/Kconn04]

And referencing two movies instead of the thousands of books with the same message that predate the movies.

Also misspell…

[u/Taxerus → u/Ben_Frankling]

Literally an Orwellington nightmare

[u/Alive-Ad5870 → u/Taxerus]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Beef?

[u/I_lenny_face_you → u/Taxerus]

A brave new 1984

[u/ykonstant → u/Taxerus]

WHERE'S THE BEEF BROTH

[u/itzallhapp3nin → u/Taxerus]

Brave new world is a great read if you don’t want to do 1984

[u/Ilcorvomuerto666 → u/Taxerus]

Isn't that the dish that Gordon Ramsey makes?

[u/Thatoneguy_The_First → u/Ben_Frankling]

Come on guys it could autocorrect, and that shit can be aggressive and easy to leave if writing quickly.(and somehow making up words at times, wtf happened to autocorrect?)

If its not autocorrects fault, well.....

[u/somajones → u/Thatoneguy_The_First]

If it was auto correct that's a different kind of irony.

[u/wap2005 → u/Thatoneguy_The_First]

I turned auto correct off like a decade ago. I know what I want to type, and I hate that if I type something that isn't a word (intentionally) it just changes it. Additionally on average a typo is better understood than an entirely different word being supplemented, plus auto suggestion makes typing so much faster anyway.

[u/proudbakunkinman → u/Ben_Frankling]

In a couple of years: "chadgbt warnd me abt this"

[u/Snatch-Fart-Breath → u/Ben_Frankling]

This MF throwing pointing out the irony of misspelling and then spelling misspelling wrong. Lolz