Why do younger people have a problem with correct English and spell check?

The English language is so "foreign" to many young people -- they can say the words but, as a rule, don't know how to spell the words or know the proper grammatical usage of some words. English can be a difficult language. Spell check can't help if one doesn't recognize what is wrong. English is no longer taught in the U.S. educational systems as it once was, i.e., there is now an epidemic in the usage of "I seen". I've heard TV broadcasters say this. Does anyone recognize the improper usage here? When I was in school (elementary), we were taught how to conjugate verbs, or that "I comes before E except after C, or when it sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh". Simple grannar rules that stay with you all of your life. Like the vowels. Even in colleges improper English writing is not checked. It's like when the word "a'int" (now a part of the dictionary) started being used. We have so accepted it that now it's ok -- it's not "wrong". Well, a wise old man once told me, "truly intelligent people will never use such words, no matter how many get into the dictionary". The answer to you question is, they have not been taught; they don't know otherwise.

(Please excuse my incorrect English.)

Not all of us! Some of us are actually concerned with our future, and I try the best I can with proper English. If I don't know how to spell something, or just can't remember, I look it up, but I try to be on top of everything. It's just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I admit to having done things wrong, but I do go back and correct it if I can. But you have to understand in a couple of years you'll be gone, and I'll have kids who have kids, and their spelling will be ten times worse than ours is right this second, so it's my generation's obligation to change that, but I don't see it happening...

Just as Proffesor Higgins would have said,

"You'll be strung up for the cold blooded murder of the English tongue! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?"

Several reasons. The internet is becoming a major part of pop culture and laguage changes with pop culture. If it didnt we would still be talking in THOU's and ART's. There is also the libral approach to schooling that has perverted the education system. Grading based on concepts instead of correctness. And other technology like cell phones allow for abbriviated conversations which pervade common language. Also because the more technology advances the more the younger generation becomes lazy and allows the world to do everything for them instead of doing things for themselves.

Well, most of em' is youngsters, and they don't know'd no better. LOL! There, I'm all grow'd up but I refuse to be mature. Now with that said, I don't use proper 'english', nor do I always type things out and use spell check. Most of the time I type just like I talk. Fer some reason, FER, KNOW'D, YOUNGSTERS, EM', GROW'D, and other particular words I use ain't in the spell checker thingy. I figure if someone want's to know'd what I'm like, ain't no sense in typin' like some well educated smarty pants, when I can type jest like I talk. I think that's what wrong with the world today. We try and be something or someone we ain't. Besides, they're youngsters and they learn by makin' mistakes. They'll get better and improve with time, I'm sure!

Bear

Incorrect English and the lack of using spell check is not just a young peoples' problem!

Because they are ignorant and lazy.

I'm actually 15 years old myself...maybe it's just an OCD issue, but I just can't stand typing without using proper grammar. We live in the United States, we speak English, the least we could do is use it correctly...and yet, when I hear other kids at school yell at Hispanic people for speaking Spanish, they can barely use the English language any better. That's how low society has gotten.

Just got to learn to live with it.

I can't really judge because I'm not fluent, but on the 2-2 reading exercises, I'm pretty sure the first one is supposed to be "Hon" and you wrote "Han"

Because they might also have a learning disability. My sister has one and has trouble spelling things.

I suspect it is due to having very little time to be anal, pedantic and picky, but hey how would I know Dyslexia lures KO

Not all of us do, thanks very much. I may have some difficulty with our noble friends the comma and semicolon, but I always make an effort to be well-spoken (written).