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Thanks for saying this. Whenever Grammarly puts a red line under a slightly superflouos part of the sentence I get more and more agitated at this small nudging

Thanks for saying this. Whenever Grammarly puts a red line under a slightly superflouos part of the sentence I get more and more agitated at this small nudging to robotic writing.

yawnxyz 2y ago
Grammarly thinks all writing should be bland, and that everyone needs to be a robot. Terrible product.
- throwgfgfd25 2y ago
  But it does favour _clarity_, rather than tropes.
  - j_maffe 2y ago
    There's more to writing than clarity, though. Not all written communication needs to abide of the efficient/clear writing style of technical documentation FFS
    - throwgfgfd25 2y ago
      Sure, if you're writing a novel, maybe. But there's not much more important, stylistically, to writing an business email or document than clarity. It's absolutely the most important thing. Especially in customer communications. In the UK there is/used to be a yearly awards scheme for businesses that reject complexity in communucations for clarity: https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/services/crystal-mark.html https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/services/crystal-mark.html But anyway, you don't have to act on all the suggestions, do you? It's completely different from the idea of getting an AI to write generic, college-application-letter-from-a-CS-geek prose from your notes.
      - j_maffe 2y ago
        With enough repetitive suggestions asking for the same thing, it will just continuously push your writing style towards this ultra-dry writing. Plus, even in business emails it's important to show a human side in writing. It's not like Grammarly's push for clear writing actually helps in any way. Most times it just outright suggests removing relevant info from the sentence. They just push for this service as a way to incentivise subscriptions, writing quality be damned.
- j_maffe 2y ago
  More red lines means more subscribers, right?
- cruffle_duffle 2y ago
  It also doubles as a keylogger.

Thanks for saying this. Whenever Grammarly puts a red line under a slightly superflouos part of the sentence I get more and more agitated at this small nudging to robotic writing.

yawnxyz 2y ago

Grammarly thinks all writing should be bland, and that everyone needs to be a robot. Terrible product.

throwgfgfd25 2y ago
But it does favour _clarity_, rather than tropes.
- j_maffe 2y ago
  There's more to writing than clarity, though. Not all written communication needs to abide of the efficient/clear writing style of technical documentation FFS
  - throwgfgfd25 2y ago
    Sure, if you're writing a novel, maybe. But there's not much more important, stylistically, to writing an business email or document than clarity. It's absolutely the most important thing. Especially in customer communications. In the UK there is/used to be a yearly awards scheme for businesses that reject complexity in communucations for clarity: https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/services/crystal-mark.html https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/services/crystal-mark.html But anyway, you don't have to act on all the suggestions, do you? It's completely different from the idea of getting an AI to write generic, college-application-letter-from-a-CS-geek prose from your notes.
    - j_maffe 2y ago
      With enough repetitive suggestions asking for the same thing, it will just continuously push your writing style towards this ultra-dry writing. Plus, even in business emails it's important to show a human side in writing. It's not like Grammarly's push for clear writing actually helps in any way. Most times it just outright suggests removing relevant info from the sentence. They just push for this service as a way to incentivise subscriptions, writing quality be damned.
j_maffe 2y ago
More red lines means more subscribers, right?
cruffle_duffle 2y ago
It also doubles as a keylogger.