[pivo]

I saw it in a Home Depot in the US once. It was father's day and there was a sign that read, "Dad's Love Tools". Of course they meant to say, "Dads Love Tools".

I thought it was particularly funny and embarrassing for the store, but I couldn't get the clerk at the store to understand what was wrong.

[kreyenborgi]

> but I couldn't get the clerk at the store to understand what was wrong.

I would have loved to watch that conversation :-)

[SoftTalker]

Clerk probably had nothing to do with it, could not change it, and didn't care anyway.

[ToucanLoucan]

> I couldn't get the clerk at the store to understand what was wrong.

Not surprising. Tons of Americans are borderline illiterate. It's one of many things that makes it annoying to live here, especially as the amount of communication done in text increases with more advents in technology.

I recall reading somewhere that the standard reading level for the states is about sixth grade, and if anything that comes across to me as slightly generous. Honestly this is one of my few hopes with the proliferation of LLM: that it will make reading communications from other workers less utterly painful.

[itronitron]

Even among the highly educated, it's shocking how resistant some of them are to written communication.

I used to wonder if there was something wrong with my email, then I considered maybe they were likely busy, indifferent, or lazy, and now I wonder if they are just barely functionally literate so that drafting a response induces a significant mental burden.

[Wytwwww]

> proliferation of LLM: that it will make reading communications from other workers less utterly painful.

By somehow magically inferring what the person was trying to say and padding it with pointless verbosity?

I'm afraid we'll need to wait for Neuralink 20.0 to solve this problem...

[kyleee]

Dad’s Love Tool strikes again

[onlypassingthru]

Dad's Love Tool is why he's a dad.

[nobody9999]

>Dad’s Love Tool strikes again

That's what she said!