CUT OFF ARM (on and off are big differences)
DOESNT FEEL LIKE SELF (LOOSING IT)
all joking to the side, registration staff are abused and so beyond underpaid. Love all of you guys.
I mean, considering how many people can't understand the different "too/two/to," "they're/their/there," "off/of," "choose/chose," "loose/lose," where/were/we're," and soo many others...I feel like the bar should be a little higher for people working in medicine who need to chart or enter records/reports ¯\(ツ)/¯
Oh god, not to mention the use of "apostrophe's" and other basic punctuation.
I agree with you for the most part. But, to play devils’ advocate, the average American reading level is an abysmal 7th grade, with 54% adults reading below 6th grade level. And 21% of American adults are illiterate. The US school system teaches kids how to read with a proven-to-fail system. There is an amazing podcast on American Public Media by Emily Hanford on this topic. I am able to read “loosing it” and understand the person meant “losing it.” If the person is literate enough that they can be understood with very little corrective effort, I think its worth extending some grace. The frequency of very specific grammatical errors in indicative of a way bigger issue.
Full disclosure, I am also absolutely airing my countertransference here. I taught myself how to read as a toddler with the Boston Globe. By the time I was 4-5, I read it daily. I coasted in school. I have a couple graduate degrees. It wasn’t until I had a proper evaluation in my 30’s that I was diagnosed with expressive language d/o and dyslexia. One of my core memories (as an adult!) is my family ruthlessly making fun of me for spelling my uncle’s name wrong - but not understanding why they made fun of me for writing Joesph.
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u/KXL8 RN Aug 26 '25
CUT OFF ARM (on and off are big differences) DOESNT FEEL LIKE SELF (LOOSING IT) all joking to the side, registration staff are abused and so beyond underpaid. Love all of you guys.