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I recently did a short stint teaching English to university students. This is English as a second language (possibly unnecessary context) but the level is fairl
by ccppurcell 1y ago
I recently did a short stint teaching English to university students. This is English as a second language (possibly unnecessary context) but the level is fairly high. The course was hastily rearranged to prevent the students using llms. They had to hand write their essays under supervision, which made them a real pain to grade btw.
Then I was asked to review the questions for the final exam and I noticed some pretty weird constructions in the sample texts and sentences. Nothing completely grammatically wrong just unusual or semantically off. The example I recall was "... disproportionately affects men and women" but there were other worse examples. You can guess where this is going. But I knew that another native speaker had written the listening texts so I didn't want to directly criticise these, and I thought they might have been pulled from magazines or some corpus. But, of course, the course leader had generated them with chatgpt.
- spidersouris 1y agoWhat's the issue with "… disproportionately affects …"? It seems to be a correct English construction (even though the frequency in COCA is relatively low; 72). Some examples: > Indeed, the recent cases of hyperinflation in Brazil, Argentina, and Poland illustrate that although hyperinflation is harmful to savers and disproportionately affects the poor (The Independent Review) > A hearing is set Thursday on the new version of a legislative bill to eliminate scheduled pay increases for state employees that nixes a section that disproportionately affects rural legislative information offices (USA Today) > Suicide is a key mental health issue which disproportionately affects men. (london.gov.uk)
- ace32229 1y ago"disproportionately affects men AND WOMEN" is nonsensical. "disproportionately affects men" makes sense.