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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I'm curious, I often see it discussed now that slang and alternative interpretation must be accepted. In general, this is true, as languages change over time naturally.

But based on what you say, it seems like all pretense of language "standards" are deprioritized or discarded...

Am I off base?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Imagine it is Friday night, and you are sitting down to grade a class of high school freshman’s essays. About half of them are less than two paragraphs long. Maybe a quarter of them are consistently capitalizing the first letter of a sentence. When you do see what resembles a normal English sentence, it is clearly AI generated or copied straight from the first google search result for the assigned essay topic. Lots of Wikipedia, with obvious artifacts [3]. Also, you have 100 of them to grade.

Seeing correctly spelled slang is a breath of fresh air.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To expand what I mean:

Not just slang, but chosing to ignore (or not being aware of) grammar rules. Is it possible some are being discarded due to more purposeful disregard? Like, "no one cares to write that way any more"

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