Model converts casual text to formal

Two comments:

I think there's a bit of "words for the sake of words" in the formal. I don't necessarily equate formal with verbose or trying to use big words.

  [Casual]  What do guys do to show that they like a gal?

  [Formal]  What do guys do to demonstrate their affinity for women?

Other than "a gal -> a woman" this is just adding pretension. (And on second reading I realize that somehow "guys" is not modified to men but gal is to woman)

2. I can see an application for this concept as a way to make writing clearer and less pretentious (not less formal).

For example, in English, Germanic words often sound less fancy than their latin equivalents [0]. That, combined with sentence construction (not-unpleased, clause order, etc) one could have something to reign what we learned in high school english.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and_Latinat... - it's not always true, but look at answer -> response, aware -> cognizant as examples.

My favorite:

[Formal] "Your mother is so old, her last name is asaurus" [Casual] "Yo mama's so old, her last name is asaurus"

[Casual] "Yo what's up with the weather?" [Formal] "What is the weather like?"

More info: https://github.com/PrithivirajDamodaran/Styleformer