yes machine please write for me
@ElleGray I miss when you could tell Grammarly it was wrong.
@ElleGray Surely you mean 'Please writen't for me.'
@ElleGray I kinda like ‘trulyn’t’ as a word, honestly.
@josh0 @ElleGray Perfectly cromulent word.
@hyperlinkyourheart @josh0 @ElleGray @ElleGray look if yesn’t is accepted vernacular I don’t see why we can’t make more apostrophe phrases.
@josh0 @ElleGray "How are you today?" "Oh, you know, trulyn't."
@Forbearance @ElleGray it’s trulyn’t a terrible word!
@josh0 @ElleGray Honestly, it’s the sort of thing my Natural Intelligence™ would happily(and knowingly) generate. This is a top tier product of AI.
@josh0
Goes right into my word box, alongst whomst
@ElleGray
@DelilahTech @ElleGray whomstsoever useth these words will trulyn’t fail to communicate cromulently!

@ElleGray

I experience this regularly with all the very new snazzy spellcheck..

It started down this path several years ago.

@ElleGray seriously, what a fuck. Grammar and syntax check for English has been working for fucking decades.
Seriously, Grammarly!

@peteriskrisjanis that’s what I thought!

How did Grammarly fuck up this badly? I assume by tacking an LLM on to their product.

@peteriskrisjanis @ElleGray Yes, it's called 'hiring a copyeditor.'
@peteriskrisjanis @ElleGray As an abysmal speller, I can attest that spellcheck has become dramatically worse in the last year or so. It seems to be across all platforms.
@ElleGray Oh FFS…
@mossyrua @ElleGray AI assistant: It looks like you’re researching facial feminization surgery, here’s a list of informed consent clinics.
@ElleGray honestly I agree thats much better
@ElleGray Sort of a sly way to tell you to write "truly was not"?

@ElleGray This reminds me when I set up Word for my preschooler on a laptop who liked to type on a computer "like dad does". Except it kept making those red squiggly lines! Being smart she figured out you could right click and if you clicked the right line, the squigglys went away!

Needless to say, that laptop became useless for writing as the spellcheck dictionary was FILLED with a lot of letter combinations!

@ElleGray @avon_deer You're trulyn't shittin me?! wow.
@ElleGray to be fair, the service is called Grammarly not Grammatically.
@julianlawson @ElleGray 💯%! The brand name itself is so irritating that there was 0️⃣ chance i'd ever use it. Anyone wanna take bets as to how soon "trulyn't" will make it into every day English? Still unclear of usage 🤔... "you suck! - that's trulyn't!!" ???
@ElleGray hahahahahahah imma use the word

@ElleGray

I'm under the impression that Grammarly and DeepL have become slightly "dumber" lately.

Had some weird "corrections" lately as well.

@franskeijer @ElleGray well yeah, it looks like that. But It's still looking better than Google Translator in the output (yet..)

@dtdan03 @ElleGray

Yes, indeed. I am choosing DeepL over Google Translate — always.

@ElleGray Not my screenshot
@hareldan @ElleGray looks like grammarly is getting worse.
@prefec2 @hareldan @ElleGray I kind of like the idea of being able to say “be stilln’t my heart.”
@prefec2 @hareldan @ElleGray Was it ever good? I saw lots of commercials, never used it, and don't remember hearing anything negative before.
@mrbruno @hareldan @ElleGray I honestly don't know. I used it for a short period, but not on relevant work. Just for testing. Still it got the basics right.
@mrbruno @prefec2 @hareldan @ElleGray No. Not really. "Grammar check" in general (and Grammarly in particular) is kind of horked as a concept -- it works decently well as "spell check for punctuation" and a few copy-editing types of tasks like making sure you don't have subject-verb mismatches after a long clause in between, but overall it has a lot of the petty fussbudgetry training that imposes a particular style above all else, mixed with misperceptions about what "grammar" really is.
@ElleGray the worst thing is... you don't need an LLM to do spelling 🤷🤦absolutely stupid.

@ElleGray And for anyone who still isn't sure how this works (I'm pretty sure Grammarly gets this one wrong):

If you must use "was trulyn't", make sure you know the negative form. It is *not* "was truly". It is either "wasn't trulyn't" or "was trulyn'tn't".

The true hotness of AI condensed idiocy in a nutshell!
@ElleGray Tom Scott did a video called "there'd'nt've", but he was joking.
@nxskok @ElleGray Tom Scott did a video called "there'd'nt've", but he was j̶o̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ prophetic.
@ElleGray absolutely trulyn't
@ElleGray I say go with it.
@ElleGray This is trulyn't a Grammarly moment
(if grammarly was functioning normally this would be a mome)
@ElleGray I wonder if Lewis Carroll would or wouldn't be impressed. 🤣