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Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

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Re: Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

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>The syllabary was widely lauded, as its phonetic accuracy and simplicity made it far easier to grasp than English.

I mean, that feels like it's bound to happen when an alphabet is built to represent current language or pronunciation. English is notoriously awful for not doing that.

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What were the signs this is AI slop?

em dash and also "moving reminders of how a single individual’s brilliance and tenacity can change the world". It's such a lazy writing pattern

Re: Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

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What were the signs this is AI slop?

The em dash gave it away

Here's an article in the Smithsonian magazine from 1995 with an em-dash:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-pr...

Where do you think LLM's learned these things from? They are widely used in literary writing. Like magazines and books.

Re: Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee

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What were the signs this is AI slop?

The em dash gave it away

If you read a lot of books, particularly older ones, you'll find em dashes in all kinds of writing and used often. It's functional punctuation that once you understand you may even find yourself using it (and then being accused of being an AI, lol)
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