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You say no human would reply to a forum thread about Tom Bombadil by writing and editing hundreds of words of text, complete with formatting, fancy punctuation, and two separate uses of the word 'delve'. Unfortunately for both of us, you are wrong.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3126/
Someone the other day mentioned semicolons are now a sign of AI. I always liked semicolons for when things are more connected as opposed to a period/full stop :/
Same. I am one of the rare people who know the difference between i.e. and e.g. I know when to use a semicolon vs an em dash.
I no longer feel special; it feels wrong.
In Essence Egxample
This honestly isn't rare at all, and people who try to flaunt it as some kind of mark of erudition tend to come across as... well, not quite what you intended.
Rare in certain corners of the internet? No.
Rare in the general public? Yes, absolutely.
it's stupid that English uses Latin abbreviations for these things; my first language is German and so:
When I first saw these abbreviations in English, it took me about ten seconds to memorize that "e.g." means "z.B." and "i.e." means "d.h.". If English just did it the way German does and abbreviated its native expressions ("f.e." and "t.m."), it would be obvious to everyone which is which.
Reported as AI bot. /j
Well that's annoying because I've always used semicolons
Yeah I use semicolons all the time; I can only hope my lack of native level english skills makes up for it and I don't sound like a LLM. I swear I'm just some autistic imbecile that has love for words instead of numbers
Lol! Same here. I feel seen. :)
at that point it's just "grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI", which actually means "i don't know what AI output looks like".