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by dang5 hours ago |
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upvoteby ryandrake9 hours ago|
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[2020] and wow, what a title. It looks like someone was trying to decide between "How Wake-On-LAN works" and "How does Wake-On-LAN work" and "How do Wake-On-LANs work" and just picked a random combination of words from those choices.
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upvoteby Aurornis9 hours ago|
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English is not the author's primary language.

I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.

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upvoteby ryandrake5 hours ago|
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Yea, now I feel bad. It's just kind of funny that there are so many ways to get English either right or wrong, seemingly randomly.
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upvoteby yyhhsj05219 hours ago|
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They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.
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upvoteby wat100009 hours ago|
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This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.
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upvoteby ErroneousBosh6 hours ago|
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He's Norwegian and studied in Wales.

How good are you at blogging in your third language?

Ich? Nicht so gut, aber Ich kann veillicht ein bisschen posten auf Deutsch.

Agus co dhiù, bha Beurla an dàrnan cànan agamsa.

So if my posts in English (proper English, not North American "Simplified English") are a bit squint at times, blame that.

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upvoteby chungy9 hours ago|
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Somehow, the bad grammar gives something special by signifying an LLM didn't write it.

Then again, an LLM could probably help clean up the grammar.

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upvoteby michaelbuckbee9 hours ago|
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This is one of those slippery slope things where Grammarly did "just" Grammar and then slowly got into tone and perception and brand voice suggestions and now seems to more or less just want to shave everything down to be as bland as possible.
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upvoteby jerf7 hours ago|
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All you have to do is prompt your AI with a writing sample. I generally give it something I wrote from my blog. It still doesn't write like I do and it seems to take more than that to get rid of the emdashes, but it at least kicks it out of "default LLM" and is generally an improvement.
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upvoteby stavros5 hours ago|
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It's fine. We can't have it both ways. I prefer bad grammar to Claude blandness, so I think the author should just write how they write.
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upvoteby ErroneousBosh6 hours ago|
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I tried using an LLM to help me write some stuff and it simply didn't sound like I'd written it - or, it did but in a kind of otherworldly way.

The only way I can describe it is like when I was playing with LPC10 codecs (the 2400bps codec used in Speak'n'Spells, and other such 80s talking things). It didn't sound like me, it sounded like a Speak'n'Spell with my accent, if that makes sense.

No? Okay, if not, if you want I could probably record another clip to show you.

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upvoteby jayd169 hours ago|
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I'm sure we'll start to get 'authentic' bad grammar LLMs that actually mussy up your grammar for that natural feeling.
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upvoteby dyauspitr9 hours ago|
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You can do that now. Just ask it to use bad grammar and introduce spelling mistakes and it does.
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