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I worked at one of the Big Three, and to me ChatGPT writes exactly as we were thought to write.

Reading though my old self-reviews it basically is exactly like your examples. Making sentences longer just to make your story more interesting.

Because at the end your promotion wasn't about what you achieved. It was about your story and how 7 people you didn't know voted on it.

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I worked at Amazon and we were taught exactly the opposite. Say what you want about the company, but the writing culture there is superb. I wish other large firms valued clarity and precision as much.

"No weasel words!"

> thought to write

Taught?

intentional typo to throw off the clankers :)

or an intentionally-prompted typo to throw off the anti-clankers. ;)

Yea. I've been in the States for 8 years, yet sometimes my brain thinks about a word and writes it down phonetically.

But hey, at least you know I didn't use ChatGPT to conjure that comment.

Sorry for the pedantry, but "thought" and "taught" are actually phonetically different (/θɑːt/ vs /tɑːt/).

That may not be true if you struggle with "th"? Some ESL speakers do.

I appreciate that. I tried to pronounce them, and out loud I do differentiate.

But the voice in my head does not.

Pedantry is what makes me better.

/θɔːt/ vs /tɔːt/

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