#grammar_checkers — Public Fediverse posts

What'd'ya fink about non-standard spellin' and contractions?' asked the young man, chewing gum still in his mouth.

'Pardon?' said the older man sitting next to him.

'I said What do you think about non-standard spelling and contractions?, repeated the young man.

'I suppose a limited use in dialogue is OK, if it suits the character. You need to expect some readers to trip up, lose the flow, and have to read the sentence again though. At the other extreme, for a character who values accuracy, I would not use contractions at all. Maybe the odd sentence fragment. What do you think?' answered the older man.

'Yea, s'good, innit!' the young man replied.

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Oh, do be quiet grammar checkers, there's nothing wrong with a comma splice. Nor with sentence fragments. Especially in dialogue.

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Does anybody else feel like the natural #evolution of #language has been disrupted by the overuse of #LLMs, #spell_checkers and #grammar_checkers?

Perhaps we should let people make some #spelling and #grammatical errors, so that conversations have a bit more #personality, rather than sounding robotic, sterile and monotone.

If that sounds like a recipe for chaotic #writing, remember that we still have the traditional method of providing a back pressure - #education.

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