Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for February 06, 2024

Originality and good grammar is becoming a lost art….

Without good grammar, how can we be sure of the thought behind it?

It is not thoughtless, just thought lite.

That kid needs to be taken down a peg or two. He is getting far too belligerent.

“If you cannot say what you mean, you will never mean what you say. And a gentleman should always mean what he says.”

“Are you a gentleman, Mr. Johnston?”

“I try to be, Your Majesty. I try to be.”

The Last Emperor

Trouble is, the bad grammar can change what the thought is supposed to be. And a negative bonus? The reader pegs you as an idiot…

My grand-daughter used to think A1 sauce was “AL sauce”…I wonder when AI will get to be called “AL” (short for "Albert) since the computers don’t print an upper case i like you do when manually printing, with a short line above and below?

1984

Sometimes something as simple as the presence or absence of a comma can “toggle” the meaning of a sentence between X and Y. If you wrote X but meant Y, how is AI going to know? Perhaps from the context, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Here we go, indeed…

So, for example, when someone uses the word too, as in also, but predictive text spells it to, as in “where to?” and they don’t know the difference ..I had to travel to the other side of the planet to find people who actually wanted to speak English properly. Not that I was looking but it was a treat.

And truth is the ultimate casualty.

We saw what happened to arithmetic when the pocket calculator came along. Now I can see a time when people won’t be able to write a coherent sentence without running it through a computer first!