Another Mystery Model

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

English for the New Age

 "Lexie Hull been enjoying off-season with Friends and love ones. 💜"

I would have written: Lexie Hull has been enjoying the off-season with friends and loved ones.  Why do these sports-related posts have to be written as though Trump has written them?  (Or wrote them back when he could write?)  I keep wondering whether everything has to be written in this sort of broken English to make sense to kids.

I was reading a post on Fb about a pioneer woman, who had to unexpectedly take the reins of their wagon, when bandits attacked them.  Here's an excerpt from the passage:

Now, 'refused to die quiet' has the flavor of the words from an old western legend.  But we need an adverb here, and quietly is the only word that works.  Sure, we could make an exception here, to preserve the punch of the sentence as the AI wrote it.  It must have been an AI, because it shows all the signs of having learned its craft from digesting a ton of non-grammatical text.  But every exception makes the language rules more complicated.

Kay


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