The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature

Re:The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature by ecocentrik on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:30PM (#50407770)

I started my undergraduate years intent on the study of English literature. I dreamed of libraries and professorships. Then I met a hoard of useless people like the author of this rage bait and quickly pivoted to computer engineering.

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Re:The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature by hallgrim on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:31AM (#50413190)

Accusing a critique of decaying standards in linguistic correctness as “rage bait” is peak 2026

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Re:The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature by ecocentrik on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:21AM (#50424089)

The second sentence: "There are various reasons behind these disappointments, but a common blotch they all bear is a flagrant, disciplined indifference from their artists — young and old, established and underground — toward reflection and refinement" is not a measured critique of the decaying standards in linguistic correctness. He's not pleading with his readers. Saying people have a "disciplined indifference towards reflection" (calling them idiots) because they are not stylizing their art using formal methods he considers optimal, a critique as old as the English language, is classic literary rage bait.

BTW, saying anything is peak 2026, is peak mid-2020s.

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