#I'll never use grammar software beyond desktop word

[askshivanulegacy]

I just think it's funny that anyone has ever used any kind of grammar software to much serious extent.

Spellcheck is one thing, and at least it's useful. Grammar checker, though? You already have to know what you're doing to use it. You can't use it blindly. MAYBE it'll be helpful in catching one or two errors you spaced out over. Usually you end up keeping what you originally wrote.

I haven't used grammar software for any kind of serious effort since high school. Even IN high school it didn't provide much value. You don't need it.

Thanks to intrusive AI implementations turning most grammar products into a festering bucket of inaccurate shit being used to steal our work and feed the yawning maw of technological enshitification under corporate greed, I've pretty much disabled all of my editing software and am just raw-dogging the writing experience like it's 2012.

But sometimes, even the native Word editor makes a suggestion that's so fucking dumb I have to pause and pinch my nose and ask, "Baby doll, are you fucking high?" as I mark the suggestion as wrong.

What I had written: He tipped his head back, baring his throat to those sharp, gleaming teeth.

Word's suggestion: He bore his throat.

That's it. That's the suggestion for "clarity and conciseness." Just remove three-quarters of the sentence and use the completely wrong word for the implied action.

I miss Clippy.