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The existence of common slang which isn't used in the sort of formal writing that grammar linting tools are typically designed to promote is more of a weakness
by notahacker 1y ago
The existence of common slang which isn't used in the sort of formal writing that grammar linting tools are typically designed to promote is more of a weakness of learning grammar by a weighted model of the internet vs formal grammatical rules than a strength.
Not an insurmountable problem, ChatGPT will use "aight fam" only in context-sensitive ways and will remove it if you ask to rephrase to sound more like a professor, but RHLFing slang into predictable use is likely a bigger potential challenge than simply ensuring the word list of an open source program is sufficiently up to date to include slang whose etymology dates back to the noughties or nineties, if phrasing things in that particular vernacular is even a target for your grammar linting tool...
- chrisweekly 1y agoHuh, this is the first time I've seen "noughties" used to describe the first decade of the 2000s. Slightly amusing that it's surely pronounced like "naughties". I wonder if it'll catch on and spread.
- harvey9 1y agoThe fact that you never saw it before suggests it did not catch on and spread during the last 25 years.
- nailer 1y ago‘Noughties’ was popular in Australia from 2010 onwards. Radio stations would “play the best from the eighties nineties noughties and today”.
- notahacker 1y agoCommon in Britain too, also appears in the opening lines of the Wikipedia description for the decade and the OED.