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by MarleTangible 6 days ago
You know who else sounds like LLM from time to time? ESL - English as a Second Language. People learn English from books, and get introduced to phrases through reading or interacting with others within the same community. So, it sounds like you're using the LLM argument as a way to diminish their voices as well.
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As an ESL person who has spoken English as their main language for two decades now I find this very interesting. The vast majority of my English has been spoken with my wife who used to be a marketing VP or in a professional context. Sometimes people complain about the ways politicians or corporate executives talk and I don't get it and to me it sounds totally normal because that's what I'm used to. Makes you wonder how ESL speakers will sound more and more like LLMs because that's a large part of their exposure.
As a native English speaker, I worry about picking up LLM-speak simply due to interacting with Claude Code all day.
As an ESL, it hurts me to see the atrophy of written English. "Your right!" is just painful.
As an English phrase, that isn't strictly wrong, but I understand what you mean and it's your right to complain. ;)
It's only correct if "your right" is used as in "his right", "her right", "their right". Usually what they mean is "you are right", ergo "you're right", and they are just not educated enough to know how it's spelt.
That's because many (most?) LLM chatbots were pre-trained by Kenyan ESL people