Why do young people today have such terrible grammar and spelling?

I'm 14 and my grammar and spelling are spot on, if I use improper grammar or spell a word incorrect, it is because I was typing too fast and IPhone did not correct it. Why do other people my age have such terrible pronunciation, grammar, an spelling? Can anyone tell me? For example, they don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". They say "drownd" instead of "drown". And nobody I know besides myself is a good speller. Can someone help out here?

I'm 14 and my grammar and spelling are spot on. FULL STOP NEW SENTENCE If I use improper grammar or spell a word incorrect INCORRECTLY, it is because I was typing too fast and iPhone did not correct it. Why do other people my age have such terrible pronunciation, grammar, an AND spelling? Can anyone tell me? For example, they don't know the difference between "your" and "you're". They say "drownd" DROWNED instead of "drown". And nobody I know besides myself is a good speller. Can someone help out here?

:-) Many adults don't know the difference between your and you're, spell appallingly, and mispronounce words so I wouldn't worry too much.

I do think that spell checks make us lazy. Why bother to remember the correct spelling when your gadget will correct it? I used to be excellent at spelling but it's easier to spellcheck that remember words like embarrassing. Autocucumber makes a total embarrassing mess of what you did intend to say and mine is permanently switched off. When I write by hand I spell much better as the words just look and feel wrong as I write them.

Because they r not learning proper way and lack of practice.

Perhaps because it is not taught or emphasized in school. When I was in school we were taught how to spell and so on, were tested on what we were taught, and lost marks on essays for mistakes in the English in them. You're not as good as you think you are, by the way. It should have been "incorrectly", not "incorrect", you forgot the d on the end of the and in one sentence, and your punctuation in the first sentence is poor. You made it into a run-on sentence when it should have been two sentences.

Because it is a chat not an essay idiot

Well I know loads of teens your age who are great at spelling (When not on social networking) one person in my school is top of the class I mean he can spell like mad he even ends up correcting the teachers. He can even spell Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (that word from Mary Poppins had to search it up and copy and paste it here) from his head with no help. So only some well in my country anyway are bad at spelling and pronouncing words.

Unfortunately, the texting lingo has become increasingly used, and as a consequence, proper grammar has become less and less important. I admire you, as I still thing proper grammar and spelling are important. The way that most people type things these days makes them look stupid, even when that isn't the case.

People are lazy. People don't read as much, resulting in underdeveloped vocabularies. People text so much, they use it in real life. People don't care.

You are typing fast people do not take the time to rewrite it. Some people are not good in English.

Devolution of the species, exacerbated by a mass media that makes semi-literacy seem oh-so-cool…

Bcause it takes a lots of time typing all of that wen you can just say things quicker

Very funny the amount of mistakes here.