Why words seem to be abused and misused.

I think words are misused for three different, but specific reasons: people write the way they speak, the meaning of the word in question is hard to identify, or they were never taught the correct meaning.

When I read the work of other authors, there is a tendency to use a word which makes sense in a conversation, but not in formal writing, such as "player" or "kinda." These words, although completely understandable in normal speech, are used strangely in writing because they are used in the same manner in the way someone speaks. Although I don't find it to be a problem in casual writing, It is definitely a insult to professional, developed writers to make such mistakes regularly.

There are several words in the English language that I have found to have either an issue with understanding a word, or that two words have different but similar meanings. The words "effect" and "affect" are perfect examples, since the average student can use the former word in a sentence such as, "His body suffered from the effect." Although this makes sense, a singular term requires the sentence to read, "His body suffered from the affect." Someone who does not know that would make mistakes such as this, which leads to my next point.

There are even students who did not even learn all the aspect of the written form. The teachers of High School and Middle School may have only taught the basics of the witten language and not the specific rules because there was no need, or it was unimportant to teach such a small lesson, or any number of factors. I know this fact from personal experience.