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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by OptionOfT on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:16PM (#46279001)
I worked at one of the Big Three, and to me ChatGPT writes exactly as we were thought to write.

Reading though my old self-reviews it basically is exactly like your examples. Making sentences longer just to make your story more interesting.

Because at the end your promotion wasn't about what you achieved. It was about your story and how 7 people you didn't know voted on it.

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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by echelon_musk on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:05PM (#46279769)
> thought to write

Taught?

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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by OptionOfT on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:42PM (#46280331)
Yea. I've been in the States for 8 years, yet sometimes my brain thinks about a word and writes it down phonetically.

But hey, at least you know I didn't use ChatGPT to conjure that comment.

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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by shadow28 on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:45PM (#46281169)
Sorry for the pedantry, but "thought" and "taught" are actually phonetically different (/θɑːt/ vs /tɑːt/).
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by OptionOfT on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:18PM (#46281586)
I appreciate that. I tried to pronounce them, and out loud I do differentiate.

But the voice in my head does not.

Pedantry is what makes me better.

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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by tom_ on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:15PM (#46281545)
That may not be true if you struggle with "th"? Some ESL speakers do.
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by anticensor on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:36PM (#46316673)
/θɔːt/ vs /tɔːt/
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by engineer_22 on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:40PM (#46280292)
intentional typo to throw off the clankers :)
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by inanutshellus on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:14PM (#46280755)
or an intentionally-prompted typo to throw off the anti-clankers. ;)
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Re:I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Li... by patrickmay on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:53PM (#46281257)
I worked at Amazon and we were taught exactly the opposite. Say what you want about the company, but the writing culture there is superb. I wish other large firms valued clarity and precision as much.

"No weasel words!"

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