#They just follow broken prescriptive rules and shitty writer aphorisms

[gacorley]

For a while now, I have found that Grammarly and most grammar checkers are really up tight on removing any ""extra"" words.

Like, listen, yes, this word technically conveys information that is already present, but the whole construction "X's own Y" is very conventionalized and it's used for a reason. The redundancy has a point, and that point here is to emphasize the idea that I'm talking about something you're making yourself as opposed to my own conlang that I'm talking about elsewhere in the post. Enhancing that particular meaning is part of the message.

#I've hated grammar checkers since Word introduced it like over a decade ago #They just follow broken prescriptive rules and shitty writer aphorisms #Trying to make everyone write in the same style all the time forever