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Cutter 1 point ago +1 / -0

As with math; there are rules that must be memorized, without which neither numbers nor words can be used properly. Not learning the basics because the "answers" are on a smart phone has given us a generation of functional illiterates.

My favorite word peeve remains people with items "for sell" that they "must sale", followed closely by those who routinely apostrophize plurals, presumably because their spill chucker told them to.

I'm also quite frustrated by people who think rifles with muzzle breaks are safe to shoot, and suspect that the term "brick" (as in, "it's bricked") arose from people not knowing whether to use 'brake', 'break', 'broke', or 'broken'.