My Fb bugbear

'The litter was 'laying' all over the parking lot. What was it laying? Only chickens lay eggs. One of my pet peeves and I see it all the time!
Another that I see often is 'rod iron' for 'wrought' iron.

Daddima

People also seem to stand in ‘que’ s nowadays, ‘our’ becomes ‘are’ and ‘ were’ becomes ‘where’.
I know what you mean, MOnica, but I think a genuine dyslexia or dyspraxia caused mistake is obviously different -looking from forumspeak!
Also, mum2three, that would be grand if only spoken English were being used correctly, but, to me, the constant use of ‘ I’m like’ when describing communication, ‘like’ being used every second word, ‘basically’ and ‘literally’ being used constantly, and many other things, make so much English language painful to listen to.
I think that in schoole the emphasis may be on the content of writing rather than the grammar or spelling, and it’s from social media the sloppiness originates.

‘Schoole’?
Add typing in bed without specs to the list!

HowVeryDareYou2

Someone on Mumsnet, the other day, asked if children still go "Trickle treating" for Halloween

When she was maybe 6, dd1 wrote a piece that ended up on the classroom wall for an open day. It described how she and friends had gone ‘Trickle Treating’ at Halloween!

A lot of effort used to go into getting pupils to write in standard English, even if their spoken English was a non-standard variation. I don't know if that is still the case. And modern languages had an input into English too, but few pupils take ML beyond year 9 nowadays.
I well remember trying to point out to a pupil that she had spelled a French past participle incorrectly. "Oh, miss, have writ it wrong?", she asked.
I think she was the same pupil who later remarked, "I reckon I've learned more English off of you, miss, than what I have off my English teacher."

I must reign in my comments.

I have seen a recent FB local page for an antiques fair, showing some lovely jewellery including several broaches ...

BlueBelle

If people have dyslexia or are poor at spelling why don’t they talk into the device

I do all my communicating on a laptop computer, not a mobile phone, so I cannot talk into it. It would also disturb DH working his side of the desk if I spent all my time talking, even if not to him.

How I hate seeing adds from people saying " needs gone ASAP "

Well, at the risk of being a pain, I hate seeing 'ads' spelt as 'adds'. It is short for 'advertisement', which has one 'd' and does not add anything, so doesn't work that way either.

'Needs gone' is a Scottishism that applies in the far north of England, too. It's similar to 'needs washing' or 'wants eating'. It's not a mistake, it's regional semantics.

Floradora9

How I hate seeing adds from people saying " needs gone ASAP "

I always feel sorry for the poor old sofa or whatever item ‘needs gone’.

I put a mobile phone up for sale on our local FB page.
The responses were quite shocking!

Some people just put the amount they were willing to pay, others were abbreviated sentences such as “ I gv ya askin pce cn cm na”
Lots of wear R U?

I was obviously selling too cheap.

In the end I got a response from a fireman called Ian, I responded saying as he was the only person who could construct a sentence, spell and use the word please he could have it!