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Comment by shlip

1 month ago

This must be infuriating:

> You spend a lifetime mastering a language, adhering to its formal rules with greater diligence than most native speakers, and for this, a machine built an ocean away calls you a fake.

This is :

> humanity is now defined by the presence of casual errors, American-centric colloquialisms, and a certain informal, conversational rhythm

And once you start noticing the 'threes', it's fun also.

I mean, "to err is human" was written in the 1700s, by the enlightenment era author the essay writer is presumably reading.

Humanity has always been about errors.