Comment by somat
3 hours ago
Very depressing, and I believe it.
I am a bit of a luddite in this domain and have so far managed to resist the lure of using the generator to expand my thoughts, and I still catch myself writing "it's not just an X it's a Y" and other generator type tells. If it infecting my patterns it is totally entering the wider subconscious as "How to write" (Sighs)
That's not a generator tell when used judiciously. It's a genuinely useful construction that's been poisoned by overgeneration.
That's the flaw in LRHF: constructs tagged as effective or sophisticated speech become templates, are increasingly used out of context (e.g., "not A, not B, but C" is usually meant to provide some synthesis and further the progress of the text) and suffer from significant overexposure. (And gone is the em-dash…)