Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li...
by rcarmo on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:08AM
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I'm bilingual (so not fully native by most criteria) and I read enough classic English literature to actually use "proceeded" regularly, as well as multiple other more established means of conveying my intended meaning :)
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li...
by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:45AM
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> classic English literature to actually use "proceeded" regularly
Huh, apparently 'proceeded' was used more commonly in 19th-century writing [1].
[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Proceeded&year...
Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li...
by rcarmo on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:30PM
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Well, I read Dickens, Hawthorne, Austen...
Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li...
by komali2 on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:55PM
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I meant it more in the modern usage where it's either thrown in liberally when using cop-speak, or by tumbler/redditor type writers when they're trying to be funny.
"He then proceeded to" in these situations can basically always just be "he (verb)".