Just as the title asks I’ve noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they’re reading.
They’ll read it and despite all the information being there, if it’s even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it’s complete gibberish or indecipherable.
Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it’s making me lose my fucking mind.
This isnt new. Anyone who has been on a dating site or app in the last 20-30 years will have stories to tell.
The same applies with ads for almost anything. I can recall advertising a property to let in the early 2000’s, the ad started with the line “Non-smokers wanted for non-smoking property” or something similar, and I repeated the non-smoking thing or variations of it over a dozen times within the ad. A couple turned up to look at it, both carrying cigarette packets, one actually smoking on arrival…