{"id":15580,"date":"2025-06-12T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15580"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:58:43","slug":"grammer-ai-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15580","title":{"rendered":"Grammer, AI style"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>From your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media timeline.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/grammarly.jpg\" alt=\"Social media post by @prettybbuckley reading well no over an image featuring the text but truly wasn\u2019t sure how., which Grammarly AI has suggested should be corrected to was trulyn&#039;t [sic]\" width=\"600\" height=\"614\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/grammarly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/grammarly-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>We all occasionally need help with English grammar, even we pensioners who have spent decades working at linguists, but the above &#8216;<em>suggestion<\/em>&#8216; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/\">Grammarly<\/a> could be diplomatically described as unhelpful.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammarly\">Wikipedia<\/a>, &#8220;<em>Grammarly is an American English language writing assistant software tool. It reviews the spelling, grammar, and tone of a piece of writing<\/em>&#8220;, as well as being a tool for detecting plagiarism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On its own website, Grammarly is described as &#8216;<em>Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for everyday communication<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>On the basis of the above howler, your correspondent would not trust it to write out the alphabet in the correct sequence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social media timeline. We all occasionally need help with English grammar, even we pensioners who have spent decades working at linguists, but the above &#8216;suggestion&#8216; from Grammarly could be diplomatically described as unhelpful. According to Wikipedia, &#8220;Grammarly is an American English language writing assistant software tool. It reviews the spelling, grammar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,9],"tags":[49,36,16,10,22,35,23],"class_list":["post-15580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15591,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15580\/revisions\/15591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}