Exactly. If you have access to everyday writing from 20-40-60 years ago, such as notes and letters, you will see some of those bad spellers, but even there there’s some selection. The worst spellers would necessarily be those who practised little, and thus left fewer missives behind.
Interesting juxtaposition of username and expertise. Not that corals are plants, but they’re not much smarter than plants, so similar in that way.
I guess an aquarist (sp?) would have to be careful to avoid actual carnivorous plants in with the fishies. Could get expensive quickly.
Just about all the denizens will bite, sting or eat each other.
Are there carnivorous water plants that take prey the size of aquarium fishes?
If there aren’t, then there ought to be…
There are some Utricularia that are aquatic. The largest thing that I’ve seen U. gibba take is mosquito larvae, and it is just able to grab the tail. 
Highly magnifying aquarium walls and tiny fish then … That could work.
I think the inability to punctuate annoys me more than misspelling. It’s especially common with quotation marks, which seem to be a complete mystery to some people. I’ve seen examples like all of the following:
“I’m leaving you, she said.”
“I’m leaving you.”, she said.
“I’m leaving you.” She said.
“Are you leaving” she asked?
Yup.
And all of these artifacts are the result of people who are non-readers/writers simply transcribing the stream of talking that’s going on in their head.
Stream of consciousness is like most everything else on the inside of a human: goopy & messy and not really fit for public viewing.
Watching these folks try to write is sorta touching in a child-like way. Much like watching me try to paint a picture. It looks like something an 8-year old might have done.
“Is the period supposed to be there?” He asked, proving his ignorance.
Possibly autocorrect. T and E are fairly close together, and the predictive algorithm will put the more frequently used first. You think you typed “worst” and the computer inserts “worse”. Lack of detailed review of your post gives errors.
I occasionally post here from my phone, and am just about guaranteed there will be one autocorrect problem somewhere along the way.
Generally, you shouldn’t put a period in the sentence until the end of the sentence. The standard format is to put the comma inside the quotes instead of the period, and then one period at the end. No comma outside the quotes after the comma inside the quotes.
I believe that I was taught to close the quote before the comma.
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That’s British style.
Well, hell, they invented the damn language!
But they’re godless Commies!
I saw it again today: “disgusting” spelled “discusting”. Ugh.
Our mother was an English teacher. And she was one in the home, also. She was quick to correct verbal and written English in the house. I listened and learned.
My brother, 18 months older, didn’t pick up on it. And was a very poor speller. But, he was a great mechanic, and there was nothing he couldn’t fix.
I’ve seen a couple deeds or lists of heirs recorded in the land records over the years where the decedent is referred to as the diseased as opposed to the deceased.
The Brits are G-dless Commies?
I missed something somewhere.
My current pet peeves:
“prolly” meaning probably. (it appears early in this very thread, possibly ironically)
“and wahla” and variants for et voila! When it is “viola” at least they were trying.
Brake and break, of course, as has been mentioned. Automotive, motorcycle, and bicycle forums kill me with that one.