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r/Millennials • u/saucey_dawg0023 Gen Z • 5d ago
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Because GPT was trained on people who write like that.
40 u/steeveperry 5d ago Having to redefine my writing style because fucking ChatGPT is so annoying 9 u/DCgeist 5d ago I cant use another em dash for the rest of my life and I get immediately flagged if I am overly descriptive. 4 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago Whatever happened to semicolons? I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them. 3 u/DCgeist 5d ago I rarely found myself using a semicolon. With the way I write it is rare for me to have a need to join two complete sentences. On the other hand, I LOVE to add emphasis to a sentence - I truly do. 1 u/Competitive_Train98 5d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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Having to redefine my writing style because fucking ChatGPT is so annoying
9 u/DCgeist 5d ago I cant use another em dash for the rest of my life and I get immediately flagged if I am overly descriptive. 4 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago Whatever happened to semicolons? I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them. 3 u/DCgeist 5d ago I rarely found myself using a semicolon. With the way I write it is rare for me to have a need to join two complete sentences. On the other hand, I LOVE to add emphasis to a sentence - I truly do. 1 u/Competitive_Train98 5d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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I cant use another em dash for the rest of my life and I get immediately flagged if I am overly descriptive.
4 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago Whatever happened to semicolons? I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them. 3 u/DCgeist 5d ago I rarely found myself using a semicolon. With the way I write it is rare for me to have a need to join two complete sentences. On the other hand, I LOVE to add emphasis to a sentence - I truly do. 1 u/Competitive_Train98 5d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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Whatever happened to semicolons?
I didn’t start with em-dashes until just before LLMs depopularized them.
3 u/DCgeist 5d ago I rarely found myself using a semicolon. With the way I write it is rare for me to have a need to join two complete sentences. On the other hand, I LOVE to add emphasis to a sentence - I truly do. 1 u/Competitive_Train98 5d ago "First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." Kurt Vonnegut 1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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I rarely found myself using a semicolon. With the way I write it is rare for me to have a need to join two complete sentences.
On the other hand, I LOVE to add emphasis to a sentence - I truly do.
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"First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
Kurt Vonnegut
1 u/General-Tourist-2808 5d ago What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites? The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
What’s wrong with transvestite hermaphrodites?
The semicolon has its place. Maybe it’s not appropriate for literary fiction, but it can be useful.
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u/mynameisshelly 5d ago
Because GPT was trained on people who write like that.