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How did you meet your significant person? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Monster96@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Be it your best friend, your dog, cat, boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, and all that exists in between. How did you meet them?

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 23 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I met my wife on IRC. She was attracted to the fact that I could spell. That was 25 years ago.

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[–] warbond@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (9 children)

The standards were different back then

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

My ex-wife said she knew she could trust me because I used :) after a message.

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[–] warbond@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Wow, you do seem trustworthy! Same late 90s/early 2000s timeframe?

Spelling was one of the few bits of information you could get about a person without them directly telling you, so it's interesting that even a "face" is enough in those circumstances.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Late 2000s. You can tell a lot by the way someone types. Though we also divorced, so your mileage may vary.

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

If you mean that most people write even worse now than 25 years ago then yes 😄

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

I'd say the opposite, at least online. More people can type now than there were 25 years ago, and autocorrect on phones is mostly good nowadays.

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

25 years ago the people that were online were sitting behind a PC, not swiping on their phone and hoping the autocorrect got it right. So every typing mistake was an actual typing mistake on a real keyboard by an actual person. The use of language online has definitely gone downhill when phones entered the picture.

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I get what you're saying now. I only meant that spelling and grammar have improved. As far as the quality of the writing itself, yeah, you may be right.

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[–] Overspark@piefed.social 1 point 7 months ago

Oh yeah, the tools to help you with that have gotten much better, I completely agree with that.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Idk. Sure compared to 25 years ago, it's better, but autocorrect on phones is much worse than 10 years ago.

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