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I'm surprised to see typos and how simplistic this article is. I'm not a frequent reader, but I would have expected more from architectural digest.

nonrepeating 3y ago
Came here to say the same. Even the subhead reads, "...are causing the city to descending." I've worked in newsrooms and for media companies. Twenty years ago, this kind of thing simply did not happen at a magazine like AD.
- dylan604 3y ago
  color me shocked the quality of content goes down when you cut the budgets to the staff to the levels that any journalism outlet has endured. add on top of that the ever increasing desire to be "first" to report, and the editorial review become nothing. hit post, and "we can edit after", but getting release first if much more important.
  - pengaru 3y ago
    "our data indicates overt typographical and/or grammatical errors increase engagement" /s
- aww_dang 3y ago
  When I see these errors I assume they've outsourced content creation to non-native speakers. Perhaps this is unfair, but it is my immediate assumption. It could just as easily happen when someone heavily edits their text.
  - inferiorhuman 3y ago
    Why would anyone use non-native English speakers? There are plenty of low wage countries where English is the dominant language (e.g. India, Philippines, Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia, Belize, Puerto Rico) or at least very popular (Central Europe). IMO it's far more likely that they laid off their copy editors in the way that tech companies are so fond of laying off their QA staff.
    - aww_dang 3y ago
      This is exactly the kind of English usage I see in content produced by some of those countries. Even on packaging, I find these errors. The worst is in adverts for English language education programs.
- TurkishPoptart 3y ago
  >A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others I think this is grammatically correct.
csomar 3y ago
Not only that but the article is too speculative. They have no idea if it's sinking or not but according to some model it should be sinking by "this much". Maybe do some calculations and come back? or if you have nothing new to talk about, then do some research and write about it? At this point, it's much better to read the gibberish that GPT is making up. At least, it wouldn't have grammatical mistakes.
irrational 3y ago
Yes, “slit” instead of “silt”.

nonrepeating 3y ago

Came here to say the same. Even the subhead reads, "...are causing the city to descending." I've worked in newsrooms and for media companies. Twenty years ago, this kind of thing simply did not happen at a magazine like AD.

dylan604 3y ago
color me shocked the quality of content goes down when you cut the budgets to the staff to the levels that any journalism outlet has endured. add on top of that the ever increasing desire to be "first" to report, and the editorial review become nothing. hit post, and "we can edit after", but getting release first if much more important.
- pengaru 3y ago
  "our data indicates overt typographical and/or grammatical errors increase engagement" /s
aww_dang 3y ago
When I see these errors I assume they've outsourced content creation to non-native speakers. Perhaps this is unfair, but it is my immediate assumption. It could just as easily happen when someone heavily edits their text.
- inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Why would anyone use non-native English speakers? There are plenty of low wage countries where English is the dominant language (e.g. India, Philippines, Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia, Belize, Puerto Rico) or at least very popular (Central Europe). IMO it's far more likely that they laid off their copy editors in the way that tech companies are so fond of laying off their QA staff.
  - aww_dang 3y ago
    This is exactly the kind of English usage I see in content produced by some of those countries. Even on packaging, I find these errors. The worst is in adverts for English language education programs.
TurkishPoptart 3y ago
>A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others I think this is grammatically correct.

csomar 3y ago

Not only that but the article is too speculative. They have no idea if it's sinking or not but according to some model it should be sinking by "this much". Maybe do some calculations and come back? or if you have nothing new to talk about, then do some research and write about it? At this point, it's much better to read the gibberish that GPT is making up. At least, it wouldn't have grammatical mistakes.

irrational 3y ago

Yes, “slit” instead of “silt”.