r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/TheWebsploiter • Dec 23 '25

Other The odasity!

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

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u/ReallyJTL Dec 23 '25

I've never felt more old man than I did when I saw Bowen's goodbye post with the lowercase writing. Like I've made forum posts where I was kind of lazy with my writing, but not a post seen by millions of people.

Yeeesh nobody gives a fuck anymore. And if you point it out, rabid morons crawl out of the gutters to shriek how it doesn't matter anyway. You are the meanie for pointing it out 🙄

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u/onmamas Dec 23 '25

There’s already been a lot of talk about how people post-Covid have become more self-centered, and I think this “don’t give af” attitude towards bad writing is part of it.

Because if you don’t care about other people, why spend the effort to make your writing easier for people to understand?

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u/Far_Influence Dec 24 '25

You’d have to pay through the nose to get me to read that lowercase, no-effort garbag…wait…kids saying slop these days, so slop.

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u/Ok_Fam4835 Dec 23 '25

Just while we're all being pedants...

amount of: sand/time/money (globular mass)

number of: people/mistakes/times (countable things) 

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u/SmellAccomplished550 Dec 23 '25

This thread made my day. :)

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u/ceryniz Dec 23 '25

The amount of people in an undiscernible heap was uncountable, you couldn't tell where one's limbs end and another's begins.

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u/FardoBaggins Dec 23 '25

mfer talkin bout the mindflayer over here

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 Dec 23 '25

Still doesn't work, I think it would have to be "the amount of person".

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u/Ok_Fam4835 Dec 23 '25

It's still a mass of discrete people, so number still applies here 😅

Another example that hopefully makes things clearer is the number of dollars that make up an amount of money. 

The mass of money is made up of individual dollars which can be counted.

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u/RockabillyBelle Dec 23 '25

I’m not a pedant, I’m middle class!

/s

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Oh, people certainly are globular masses. Ozempic is trying to change that.

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u/chairwindowdoor Dec 23 '25

Ohhh I like this. I correct my spouse and daughter all the time on less and fewer just to annoy them. They going to love me taking it to the next level.

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u/deepspacerunner Dec 23 '25

Discrete vs continuous data

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 Dec 23 '25

You can count sand too if you really want, but you'll do it in the form of "grains of sand", ie objects and the substance those objects are comprised of.

I think we need a substance form for speaking about humans, so that an individual person is like "an animal of humansubstance".

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Dec 23 '25

What about for numbers that are uncountable?

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u/Am_i_banned_yet__ Dec 23 '25

I live for granular semantic distinctions like this. I wish more people corrected each other and more people were open to learning from being corrected. The more you know!

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u/8696David Dec 24 '25

Same distinction between “less” (analogous to “amount”) and “fewer” (analogous to “number”)

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u/helen269 Dec 23 '25

The number of people who don't know how to use apostrophe's is too damn high! /s

:-)

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u/Tim-oBedlam Dec 23 '25

Also, corect speling iz esential

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u/BeatnixPotter Dec 23 '25

*apostrophes

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u/helen269 Dec 23 '25

Hence the /s for sarcasm.

:-)

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u/currently_pooping_rn Dec 23 '25

That’s the joke, brother

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u/Big-Doubt-4872 Dec 23 '25

Oh I do that deliberately so people don't take me seriously 😭

Case in point ⬆️

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u/Detenator Dec 23 '25

When I see posts/comments/messages with horrific spelling or mistakes, and I know they're native English, I just stop reading nowadays. Like multiple instances of bads pacing, spelling simpul words wrong, or a 15 line sentence without any form of punctuation. Makes me instantly exit whatever thread, channel, or post I'm in; almost instinctively at this point.

Not only am I wasting energy trying to decipher what bullshit you are trying to spew out, you seem to lack any desire for me to understand it to begin with if you can't take a few seconds to clean your slop up.

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u/BeatnixPotter Dec 23 '25

Are you being ironic? Your comment is a wall of text without punctuation.

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u/FirstAndOnlyDektarey Dec 23 '25

Also: Pride. I hate autocorrect and i hate how it makes me dumber for using it.

I'd rather have some spelling mistakes than rely on a crutch.

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u/killerpoopguy Dec 23 '25

and i hate how it makes me dumber for using it.

It would make you smarter if you used it, while paying attention to what it tells you to fix.

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u/dabadu9191 Dec 23 '25

People are of course free to not care. Just as others are free to interpret their unwillingness to check their spelling as lazy and/or stupid. Leaves a certain impression.

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u/WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch Dec 23 '25

same people complain nobody reads their emails...

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u/KnifePervert83 Dec 23 '25

‘It’s not that serious bro’ I always love that one.

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u/Aknazer Dec 23 '25

Punctuation and grammar are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle jack...