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ggdGtoday at 4:59 PM1 replyview on HN

>That night my family watched a war movie on the VCR, maybe saving private ryan or something similar, and the helicopter struck me.

If there was a helicopter in the movie, then we can confidently exclude Saving Private Ryan.


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ButlerianJihadtoday at 5:01 PM

> and the helicopter struck me.

That must've been traumatic! He's lucky to have survived this! Oh, the helicopter was in the film? Perhaps choose a different idiom...

I hope that English is not the native tongue of this blogger, because its poor writing quality (as a "blog carnival" entry, no less!) makes me pine for polished LLM-speak!

Remember how "grammar flames" and "grammar nazis" used to be extremely rude, but by the same token, many literate/educated people cannot stand to see writing like this, because of the way it grates on our nerves, and bogs down our cognition trying to understand what the hell ideas this person is trying to convey.

Elegant writing and good grammar are simply table stakes now in the age of LLMs, although I could also understand that there is a certain deliberate regression to these sorts of amateur "mistakes" just to try and "prove" we're not using LLM assistance!

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