I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context. Not like I have a perfect writing anyway, but at least I could prove that it was self-written, not an auto-generated slop. (Could be self-written slop though :)

This applies not only work-stuff itself also to the job-applications/cv/resume and cover-letters.

▲ trollbridge 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve been doing the same thing. Basically a Turing test.

▲ mghackerlady 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

unrelated but I've never understood how to put a smiley at the end of parenthetical sentences (which comes up surprisingly often for me since I use smileys a lot and also like using parentheses). Just the smiley as an end parentheses (like this :) feels off but adding another parentheses (like this :) ) makes it look like it should be nested which causes problems since I also tend to nest parenthetical sentences (like (this)).

Yes I enjoy lisp, how could you tell

▲ rpastuszak an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Your comment made me realise that there's logic to this (like this :), since in HTML we can:

    <li> do this
    <li> and this

instead of: <li> ... </li>

and <img alt='this'> instead of <img ... />

You might like Lisp, but what you're saying reminds me of the late 00s/early 2010s xHTML2 vs. HTML5 debate :)

	▲	mghackerlady 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm an avid defender of xHTML. You can pry it from my cold dead hands

▲ sevensor 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The answer is obviously to balance your smiley faces and wrap the entire statement in the smiley face sentiment. ((: Like this :))

	▲	mghackerlady 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I like this simply for the absurdity of it, but will only use it when the entire parenthetical is modified by the smiley instead of a single word or phrase (:since I really like it:) but (it looks ugly, no hard feelings :) )

▲ tuckerman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Post C++11 you can just do (like this:)), no extra space needed before the last parenthesis.

	▲	mghackerlady 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But then it looks like I'm using a double smiley[0] which I do actually use on occasion [0] :))

▲ tuetuopay 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Use dashes and the problem goes away! Well, you gain the LLM witch-hunt, but heh, no free lunch.

▲ MarsIronPI 8 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/541

▲ kruffalon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I tend to rephrase myself so I dont end a statement inside a parenthesis with a smiley.

It's one of those things I think are worth putting some extra effort into, I'm glad to see at least one other person giving it some thought. Thx <3

▲ giancarlostoro an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have the same problem. I just ditch the smiley face. :)

▲ dylan604 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm trademarking the improper use of it/it's, there/their/they're, were/we're, etc as a sign of my humanity. Apple's typocorrect is doing it for me anyways.

▲ recursive an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This only works as "proof" up until someone innovates an "authenticity" flag on the LLM output.

	▲	judahmeek 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/ethel-dev/misspell

▲ cvoss an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I appreciate you including a few minor mistakes in this very post:

> I started making deliberate grammar and spelling mistakes in professional context[s]. Not like I have ~a~ perfect writing anyway, but at least I could prove that it was self-written, not an auto-generated slop. (Could be self-written slop though :)

> This applies not only [to] work-stuff itself also to the job-applications/cv/resume and cover-letters.

I conclude you are real.