Honestly I didn’t expect them to flag non-native speakers. LLMs don’t often make gramatical mistakes (or at least not ones your average joe could identify)
Oooh yeah, the most common dumb mistakes are (by my own checking) done by Americans in the VAST majority cases. Stuff like not knowing how to use your/you’re, there/their/they’re, cloths/clothes, definitely/defiantly, where/were/we’re, its/it’s etc. correctly and the many other failings of basic grammar like “would/could of” and so much else.
I don’t think there’s another country in the world where the native speakers are so fucking bad at even the most basic shit.
The most common response I’ve gotten and seen when others correct stuff like that is “calm down, English probability isn’t their main language” yet when checking it’s been Americans who made the mistakes 99% of the time.
The difference is between growing up, learning a language by hearing and making the sounds, and learning it as a foreign language, having to understand and memorize the rules.
“They’re, their, there” all sound the same as well as “could’ve, could of”.
But interestingly other English speakers don’t make those mistakes as often as people emerging from the american education system.
It’s plausible that Americans are worse at this than foreigners, but English spelling is a crime and everyone who makes mistakes ought be excused on account of how ridiculous the “rules” are.
I know how to spell most of the words I use and I resent the fact that my memory is polluted with this otherwise useless knowledge.
In many other languages if you know how to say a word, you automatically know how to spell it. We need a world language with grammar as simple as English and spelling as straightforward as German.
Honestly I didn’t expect them to flag non-native speakers. LLMs don’t often make gramatical mistakes (or at least not ones your average joe could identify)
Foreign speakers often know English better than most Americans
Oooh yeah, the most common dumb mistakes are (by my own checking) done by Americans in the VAST majority cases. Stuff like not knowing how to use your/you’re, there/their/they’re, cloths/clothes, definitely/defiantly, where/were/we’re, its/it’s etc. correctly and the many other failings of basic grammar like “would/could of” and so much else.
I don’t think there’s another country in the world where the native speakers are so fucking bad at even the most basic shit.
The most common response I’ve gotten and seen when others correct stuff like that is “calm down, English probability isn’t their main language” yet when checking it’s been Americans who made the mistakes 99% of the time.
I was going to say:
But interestingly other English speakers don’t make those mistakes as often as people emerging from the american education system.
It’s plausible that Americans are worse at this than foreigners, but English spelling is a crime and everyone who makes mistakes ought be excused on account of how ridiculous the “rules” are.
I know how to spell most of the words I use and I resent the fact that my memory is polluted with this otherwise useless knowledge.
In many other languages if you know how to say a word, you automatically know how to spell it. We need a world language with grammar as simple as English and spelling as straightforward as German.
The decline I’ve seen in my time on the internet is genuinely shocking
ya we used 2 jst tlk lyk dis b4 t9 bcam irlvnt
Abrevs 4evr
Espcly wen u only got lyk 140 chars pr txt
Weirdly enough i saw a massive increase in little typoes on reddit this year. More typoes and such in a few months than i saw in years.
It feels like LLMs started making mistakes on purpose.