• shneancy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word “skeet”, and would you believe it, they were a minor

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      This doesn’t seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven’t figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they’re is astounding.

      • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.

        Essentially a third of the country can’t read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.

      • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Rest assured it’s not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.

  • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Very confidently wrong, poor reading comprehension, poor grammar, limited vocabulary, emoji gore, catch phrase/pop culture quotes/talking points repeated with no comprehension of what they’re saying, clearly not aware of how many things in life work, religious regurgitation while being surprised everyone doesn’t agree with them. Very easily impressed with basic factual statements, clearly thinking confidence is the main thing that makes someone correct. Thinks their mom telling they they are handsome is a valid point. Idk, that’s all I got.

    • DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      This is like reading a reverse horoscope - you’ve just thrown as many negative traits as you could think of at the wall, knowing at least a few will stick.

      Nothing on your list couldn’t also apply to an adult, especially those most privileged and entitled in society.

    • Afghaniscran@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      Depending on what you meant by “very easily impressed with basic factual statements” it could go either way. I’m an adult and I’m happy to admit I don’t know a lot things, sometimes I’ve been stunned that what I believed was totally wrong and all it took was some to give me a basic fact to make me realise.

    • Freefall@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Those first two…and a couple others, also apply to a lot of adults I have had political conversations with the past several years…

    • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 months ago

      very confidently wrong

      Lmao dude that’s just people in general especially on forums

      There’s also nothing wrong with people learning new info, no matter how simple it may seem. That’s kind of a pretentious/egotistical way to operate.

      Most of this list is actually pretty garbage. Emojis? Using slang/catch phrases? This is basic social stuff.

      • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        What I wrote – Very easily impressed with basic factual statements

        What you think it means – there’s something wrong with people who are learning new things.

        Does ‘‘basic factual statements’’ mean ‘‘new information that someone is just now learning’’. Can it also apply to information they already know, or believe is true? Can it also be referring to basic knowledge nearly everyone knows?

        Does ‘being very easily impressed’ include a situation where someone reacts to information in a typical fashion? Does it exclude adults learning or recognizing factual information and responding with a simple agreement, such as ‘yeah that’s true’? Or is this an indication that an overreacting response is the dead giveaway?

        1. Did the sentance make a claim something is wrong with being a child?

        2. Did the sentence claim that learning new information is likewise something wrong?

        Please write one 5 sentance paragraph explaining your opinion on the above two numbered questions. Proofreading will not be necessary.

      • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        It’s like I tell my kids, an adult is just a child who got old. It’s also why a lot of cultures have a concept of adulthood that has nothing to do with reaching sexual maturity alone.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Not sure if it’s the case anymore, but strong opinions were matched with EQUALLY STRONG STYLISTIC CHOICE!!!, often coupled with poor grammar/spelling, and a tendency to lean more towards rehashing the same opinion rather than making a rational argument.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think there is a “dead giveaway”. Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can’t tell if it’s a child or someone who doesn’t speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There’s a lot of different people in the world.

    • Freefall@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I can’t get over ironically using stupid lingo, without being good at presenting it as ironic use…so I often seem like a child. I am certainly bad at forming sentences that are not stream of thought (with weird punctuation like parentheses containing clarification…like this…and overused ellipsis…)

      • Linssiili@sopuli.xyz
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        6 months ago

        It’s interesting to meet someone else who also struggles with an overuse of parentheses and ellipsis (I didn’t know what they were called, thanks for that!).

        This is a complete shot in the dark, but do you also happen to be on the spectrum? (I have nothing to base this on expect my theory that overclarification could be more common among neurodivergent people)

        • Freefall@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I don’t present as on the spectrum, but I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid. I haven’t suffered from it much as an adult. I have heard that the parenthetical over clarification and typing as your thoughts would flow naturally is a sign of Autism in particular. I can control it when I focus, but if I am ranting it comes out in force.

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Add to your knowledge- they are ellipses. A single … is an ellipsis. Many words that end in “is” are pluralized as “es”

          This is pronounced like iss versus eeze.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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      6 months ago

      I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I’m sure I didn’t fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.

      Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Yeah seriously, every time someone makes a generalization online “that subreddit is all 12 year olds anyway”, “r/teenagers is mainly grown me”, it really bothers me because no, you’re just overconfident in estimating people’s ages from text

      • Freefall@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        I would die without autocorrect. I grew up with “mom, how do I spell (word)” and getting “sound it out”, witch werks grate in Inglish…

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of “not reading all that” or other thought terminating clichés.

    I’ve found that as arbitrary as it is - the ability to read a lot of information works pretty well as a mark of mental maturity. Also links to Twitter or Tiktok as discussion points. No one over the age of 19 browses TikTok lol.

    • jaywalker [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      I’m almost 40 and I use TikTok every day. It’s literally amazing and I’m always surprised by how many people mock it while using hot garbage like yt shorts or ig

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of “not reading all that” or other thought terminating clichés.

      Ouch, I think I’m a kid in my 30s

      • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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        6 months ago

        To take it to a logical extreme, it frustrates me when a post that considers both (or more) views and is a well thought out post, is met with a single world reply - as if it’s some sort of “gotcha” or the fact that a single ambiguity in a largely solid argument somehow usurps the entire point.

        I tend to think they’re either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Agreed, it can be very frustrating - and is often used for that very purpose, to let the person know they just wasted x amount of time to compose a message no one is going to even read let alone take seriously. But I do not think this is really a good indicator for someone being a child, it’s just intentional insult.

          I tend to think they’re either young or generally underexposed to how human interaction works.

          There’s a lot of us who are not very great at communications for various reasons. I personally might just lose interest in conversation and can’t get myself to put in the effort to actually contribute value to it and just phase out, and same happens online in a way. As fucking annoying it might be for the person I’m conversing with, it’s not intentional nor meant to insult

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Using a year as an extremely long period of time, never uses “talk it out” as a solution to anything, mentions a YouTuber you’ve never heard of as if they’re a global celebrity.

    Also related to the first point, losing their mind over something that delays their education by 4 months or more.

    • Alice@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      Ugh, the second one… I used to lurk on relationship subreddits instead of just watching soap operas like a normal person, and it’s wild how quickly people jump to divorce. And if the OP makes an update where they talked it out, a lot of the commenters get mad.

      I don’t know that they’re kids, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

  • Shawdow194@kbin.run
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    6 months ago

    Asking basic questions that can usually be answered with internet experience (“how do bans/kicks work”, or “what is an administrator”, “what is LAN” etc.)

    Flaunting “new” features that existed on older products. (“This game let’s us upload our own music to soundtrack!”, “I’ve never seen a platformer like this” etc.)