Ed the Editor (@liminaled): "Grammerly is especially bad at understanding Slacy. I purposefully drop words, compound words that aren’t normally, and chop up sentences. Part of it is linguistic drift over 70 years. Part of it is how I talk. Part of it is what makes things easier for me to read."

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Grammerly is especially bad at understanding Slacy. I purposefully drop words, compound words that aren’t normally, and chop up sentences. Part of it is linguistic drift over 70 years. Part of it is how I talk. Part of it is what makes things easier for me to read.

Ed the Editor

Jan 12

Your dialogue is great, and so are the inner monologues.

I stopped using Grammarly because of the article’s premise. It was okay for corporate-speak when I was being lazy about some report. But for fiction, it wanted to clean everything up—make it pristine. Even the dialogue. It neutered it.

Dialogue should sound like how people talk. Eve…

Jan 12

6:41 PM

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