Grammarly and I regularly argue about what changes are required, but if I weren’t brought up by an English teacher I probably wouldn’t argue quite so much with an AI. Spell and grammar checkers, like Grammarly, are not infallible. But you must know how and when to use which word because the checkers have no idea. I get frustrated when I find correctly spelled words in an narrative that are the wrong word. Today, for example, the book I’m reading uses the word ‘underweight’ where what they mean to say is ‘underway’. They have even used it as two words, ‘under weight’, where they’d previously used it as a single word. Now that’s three different meanings with only one being correct for telling me that the journey has started. Since I’ll be running this email through Grammarly it will be interesting to see what changes are suggested. Anyway, the bottom line is that you should write the way you speak, but with the caveat that you should also learn how to use the correct word for the message you’re putting across. Conversely, being too pedantic can make everything as boring as bat droppings. That’s pretty much where most of my content ends up. I can’t help it, my Dad was pedantic and my Mum was an English teacher. What hope did I have? Regards, P.S. So, I’ve talked about Grammarly and now you, want to check it out. https://go.wm-tips.com/grammarly. They have a free forever tier which I used for quite a while before I upgraded. I wanted the plagiarism checker function which you don’t have in the free tier. They’ve added AI recently which I haven’t, tried as I have AI tools out the wazoo. |
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