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Grammarly Announces Layoffs
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.
Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails. Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable t…
> Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back.
In principle, I agree with you. But long ago, I worked as a copy editor, and can tell you that time in school has a weak correlation with the ability to construct a proper written sentence.
But no, nothing I've seen from Grammarly suggests that it would be much help.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.
Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails. Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable t…
"properly written"
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#25As I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails. Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable t…
"properly written"
Apologies for posting a completely off-topic comment, but as an ESL person this interests me.
I would have thought that both were different, but grammatically correct, with almost identical meaning.
"A properly written sentence" is a sentence that is properly written, and "a proper written sentence" is a written sentence that is proper.
But now I have achieved semantic saturation, and am not sure anymore.
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#27Weird, they’ve been hiring all January.
Announcing layoffs and pairing the announcement with something about AI appears to be a bit of a pattern at the moment. Something something psyop something something
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.
Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails. Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable t…
I appreciate your protip but there are also plenty of disabilities like dyslexia that affect writing. I think you're both right and wrong.
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#29As I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”
In Japanese, grammar is bumpou. I really wish they used that and called them bumpkins.
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#30As I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”
I've yet to encounter a cutesy name for an organization's employees that isn't cringey, but ooof, when it's used in layoffs it feels so tone deaf. I really wish the name fad would pass.