Some days, it's hard to proofread your own work. One of those days was today. If you spotted anything particularly frustrating, I do sometimes rely on the kindness of my readers to fix up typos.
I shamelessly submitted the entire text to, yes, chatGPT, and asked that remarkably stupid something to detect errors in English usage or typos. It found exactly zero of the four I detected.
It was however loquacious in nitpicky corrections I would (mostly) consider usage you have chosen (mindreading here) as 'your style', which I do admire greatly. I will subject you only to the final pieces of advice it offered. It's approximately in the style of a Grade 12 English teacher's critical comments
In the sentence "She puts popsicle sticks together with gum to do so.", "to do so" is redundant and should be removed.
In the sentence "But, then, why wasnтАЩt there those critical voices?", "there" should be removed.
In the sentence "And they stems from a fundamentally earnest place.", "they" should be changed to "they stem".
In the sentence "That kind of abuse, we know, comes from a tiny minority of people.", "we know" is unnecessary and could be removed.
In the sentence "And failing to recognize just how mentally damaging and destructive that torrent of abuse can be does us no good.", "does us no good" is wordy and could be simplified to "is harmful".
In the sentence "While Phelps-Roper alleges itтАЩs trans people and the woke mob trying to silence Rowling", "alleges" should be changed to "asserts".
In the sentence "Because, after years of fighting with Rowling, the real monsters have come out and can point to her experience as an example of the intolerant progressive army.", "the intolerant progressive army" could be changed to "intolerance from progressives".
In the final sentence, "more and more libraries go up in smoke" should be removed as it appears to be unrelated to the rest of the text.
For the first time I was disappointed in an obvious lack of proofreading.
Some days, it's hard to proofread your own work. One of those days was today. If you spotted anything particularly frustrating, I do sometimes rely on the kindness of my readers to fix up typos.
I shamelessly submitted the entire text to, yes, chatGPT, and asked that remarkably stupid something to detect errors in English usage or typos. It found exactly zero of the four I detected.
It was however loquacious in nitpicky corrections I would (mostly) consider usage you have chosen (mindreading here) as 'your style', which I do admire greatly. I will subject you only to the final pieces of advice it offered. It's approximately in the style of a Grade 12 English teacher's critical comments
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In the sentence "She puts popsicle sticks together with gum to do so.", "to do so" is redundant and should be removed.
In the sentence "But, then, why wasnтАЩt there those critical voices?", "there" should be removed.
In the sentence "And they stems from a fundamentally earnest place.", "they" should be changed to "they stem".
In the sentence "That kind of abuse, we know, comes from a tiny minority of people.", "we know" is unnecessary and could be removed.
In the sentence "And failing to recognize just how mentally damaging and destructive that torrent of abuse can be does us no good.", "does us no good" is wordy and could be simplified to "is harmful".
In the sentence "While Phelps-Roper alleges itтАЩs trans people and the woke mob trying to silence Rowling", "alleges" should be changed to "asserts".
In the sentence "Because, after years of fighting with Rowling, the real monsters have come out and can point to her experience as an example of the intolerant progressive army.", "the intolerant progressive army" could be changed to "intolerance from progressives".
In the final sentence, "more and more libraries go up in smoke" should be removed as it appears to be unrelated to the rest of the text.
I in no way expected a real time response. Wowed.
I promise to reread the piece and note my findings.
I'm in Thailand and it's early morning.
Breakfast first.
1.
Even those who think of as the blackest form of evil can do good
AI smartass correction, when changing 'who' to 'we' works perfectly well (but may not mean what you intended !):
Even those who are thought of as the epitome of evil are capable of doing good.
2.
Are we better off with Rowling as an enemy? (As opposed to, say, an abstentions.)
This looks like a Google autocorrect error to me.
Are we better off having Rowling as an enemy, rather than as someone who abstains from taking a stance?
3.
, at times, argue that the trans community presents and existential threat to feminism.
OK, just a typo.
4.
And they stems from a fundamentally earnest place
Again, simple typo
4.
But, then, why wasnтАЩt there those critical voices?
This one just sounded bad, to me, not actually incorrect usage,
but the AI picked it up so I include it.
AI suggested
But then, why weren't there any critical voices?"
I prefer (irrelevantly):
But, then, where were those critical voices?
I'm flabbergasted that with the quantity of virtually perfect copy you produce daily you would take the time to read this! Thanks and thanks again.