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Poor grammar/orthography
What do birds have to do with anything?
Dunno, better call in an etymologist to study what bugs the birds are eating.
"Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs"
What about the study of Ents?
Looks up
Everything!
Puts on foil hat
You made a perfect example of the original question there. Emoting in italics like an old geeky chat. I'd bet you're no younger than 35.
How do you do, fellow geriatrics?
Nice try, kid
This doesn't seem to hold true for native English speakers. The number of old white North Americans on Facebook who haven't figured out punctuation, capitalization, or things like their/there/they're is astounding.
Rest assured it's not just US problem. The same happens in other languages too and it may be even worse there.
As many as 16% of US adults may be considered functionality illiterate in English. A further 26% have serious difficulty gaining understanding from what they read in English. From a department of education study.
Essentially a third of the country can't read much beyond the cat in the hat, if even that.