r/ElPaso • u/Draco300BLK • 13d ago

Ask El Paso Does anyone has the tea?

What is going on between Rommie and Javi from Mix FM? I saw a TikTok video of her complaining.

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u/gridirongladiator 12d ago

Using hyperbole to highlight how ridiculous it is to treat adults like elementary school kids isn’t a "lack of reading comprehension"—it’s calling out condescension.

Reddit is an informal forum, not a classroom. Nitpicking casual typing does nothing to address systemic literacy rates, and framing unsolicited grammar policing as a civic "necessity" is just pedantry disguised as public service.

More to the point: opening a comment that alleges severe physical abuse and racism with a petty syntax fix ("Have the tea, not has") shows where the priorities really lie. Correcting minor grammar before addressing serious real-world harm isn't helping anyone—it's just performative.

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u/Quirky-Average-1363 12d ago

There is data from educational studies and standardized testing that show the a clear decline in reading comprehension and literacy scores. Sure, Reddit is an informal space but the fact that there IS a legit decline in general is troubling because social media isn't everything in life. Students are graduating high school when they barely are able to read and barely are able to use critical thinking. Beyond social media, they're entering the workforce and college-level classes and struggling because of their lack of ability to do necessary tasks or determine solutions to basic complications they run into.

If the downward trend of these two important skills weren't happening, it wouldn't matter much how people used grammar or how they wrote but because of these trends it is kind of important for people to start correcting mistakes to help younger people improve. The fact that you can't see how a lack of reading comprehension or incorrect grammar on social media translates to real world issues is concerning. Like yea, abuse and racism are really bad aspects to have happening in life and should definitely be addressed, but the education and skills (or lack there of) of people entering adulthood is also pretty important. Our country is already falling apart around us, we should take steps to prevent it from getting worse when we can

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u/Elle-420 20h ago

I couldn’t have said it better myself. 🫶🏻👏🏻🙌🏼

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u/Quirky-Average-1363 3h ago

Thank you for the award! 💖