HeyJaredThe Glottal Stop
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Why I feel icky about the Substack/Pangram partnership (opens the original)
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If I asked you to write like AI…do you think you would be able to do it?Absolutely! Let’s dive in…it’s the three S’: saccharine, sycophantic and samey. In fact, it’s got those too - rules of three. And it’s not just boring; it manages to take all of the good techniques we know from rhetoric and turns them into blancmange, just like that contrastive construction I just dropped.Thanks for reading The Glottal Stop! Subscribe for free to receive new posts
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