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by calcifer 2 days ago
> Things can be fun or interesting or worthwhile without being a harrowing battle of discovery!

The quoted sentences used "correct", "right" and "wrong". Hardly the sensationalist words you're implying.

2 comments

It's not the word choice, it's the whole tone and structure of the sentence. It reads like a horror writer building up the tension before a big reveal but it just keeps drawing it out over a whole article and for something that isn't worth the build-up. It gets quite tiring to read IMO (LLM writing in general tends to have a grandiosity to it which really grates with something which is meant to be more informative, in my experience. They will explain a section of tax law like it's the second coming of Christ).
I get what they're saying, it's more about the punchy tone than the word choice