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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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[โ€“] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Are you calking me illiterate? Wtf man, get out tankie.

/s /j

Yeah, I feel like people just wanna start a fight without even reading what the actual argument is.

[โ€“] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever since i started using lemmy i started misreading words a lot

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[โ€“] nawordar@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Recently, I often misread words or even add ones that are not there. Long, complex sentences are very difficult to understand for me. I feel like primary school me would ridicule modern me.

[โ€“] 2d@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No. I have not. I think there has been a decent sized chunk of the population who has never had much interest in reading anything. That percentage has not made a noticeable spike.

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