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Currently reading Ink of Guilt by L. Matthew’s and K. Pearce and every couple of pages every single sentence ends with a word that ends in -ly. And they use like so many big words unnecessarily.
7 upvotes, 9 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Book Club. "Currently reading Ink of Guilt by L. Matthew’s and K. Pearce and every couple of pages every single sentence ends with a word that ends in -ly. And they use like so many big words unnecessarily."
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Anonymous 2d

it reminds me of when my middle school english teacher would prompt us to use the vocabulary words from the week in a story

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Anonymous 4d

Just looked at the copyright page to see if it’s a newer book and it’s not even done.

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Anonymous 4d

this is why people need to lookup a summary of Stephen King's "On Writing"

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Anonymous 2d

Looked at the sample on Amazon and everything about it is screaming AI generated

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

And why’s that?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

one of the bits of advice is to not use words that end in ly

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4d

Ohhh yeah that makes sense. It wasn’t in the beginning but if you look through the book it’s scattered. And it makes it so hard to read.

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Anonymous replying to -> ratdealer 2d

It really is

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2d

Oh man 😅

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