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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Yes, it's becoming a huge problem. There's so many things they want to change these days. What these machines and AI tools don't realise is that what they see as imperfections and incorrect grammar are often part of the writer's style and are what gives the story flare. Also, a lot of these things they now want to alter because they're seen as 'problematic' by today's standards are often there because they uniquely capture the times they are from with colloquialisms and particular turns of phrase and so on, and it all makes things authentic and real. We can't learn anything from the past if it's all completely sanitised... 😎

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R. H. Snow's avatar

YES! The greatest writers of their age had unique styles... they broke the mold and created their own niche!

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

Not to mention Shakespeare, Homer, Beowulf, Edgar Allan Poe, and HG Wells. The best works are vibrant, full of life, and easy to read.

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Tiffanie Gray's avatar

Yes, yes, yes, 1000x yes!

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Skip's avatar

Smart and beautiful. Good combination .

Love your stuff

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R. H. Snow's avatar

Hi Skip!! I love you too!

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Carl R Williams's avatar

Can I still rely on my "Strunk & White"?

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R. H. Snow's avatar

Yes because Wiki says 'Many People' hate it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

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Carl R Williams's avatar

You have got me chuckling. Thank you. Not much to chuckle about these days. Also, hello to Texas from Tennessee. BTW, didn't Texas use to be a colony of Tennessee?

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R. H. Snow's avatar

We started a Revolution together💖thank you for giving us Davy Crockett!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett

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Carl R Williams's avatar

Whether it is true or not, I love the story of his last speech in Congress when he told them they could all go to hell, he was going to Texas. I know how he felt.

Stay well. I'll be back to that comfy ottoman, but I'll bring my own coffee.

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R. H. Snow's avatar

YaY!

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Stirling S Newberry's avatar

Sometimes you need to read the past in order to move beyond it. One good experiment to do is to type in some words from KJE, Ulysses, Pride and Prejudice etc. the press Grammarly.

JKE and Shakespeare are the core of our usage but they are not the current from of our usage - which will challenge with time. The KJE had not one woman on the board and the grammar is woeful obsolete - not obsolescent.

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R. H. Snow's avatar

I think you have touched on the core of this problem - AI programs are inherently biased towards current grammar, spelling and values, and they are being used to judge all works. All works of the past at some point will become obsolete, but obsolescence does not equal worthlessness. Demanding that all created works reflect only current values is the path to ignorance.

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Bradley Vee's avatar

Page on!

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The Obsolete Man's avatar

‘If you want a picture of the future prose, imagine an algorithm stamping on a human voice – forever.’

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R. H. Snow's avatar

Poetic YAY

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