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Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Blake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a beautiful comment, thank you for sharing it, and it’s a tragedy that you’re downvoted. The irony, that in a thread about reading comprehension where people are falling over themselves to talk about how bad other people are for not properly reading text, they jump eagerly into the exact same box.

[–] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/9gIMZ0WyY88

It's like 100 years ago if you could quote the Aristotelian whatever's you'd get pussy like mad. I have a hypothesis that meme literature will be the same in another 100.

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