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Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn’t need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn’t end up with them either.

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Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.

Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!

I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.

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I didn’t mind the fact that it was there, I was always just annoyed at how useless the memory hints were. Like yeah, of course I could spell “neither” if I just remember the e comes before the i
 that’s the problem.

It’s like saying “if you want to be rich just get more money” or “NASCAR is easy cuz it’s all left turns”

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I after E, except after C; when it sounds like “ee”.

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I always thought it’s funny to see such a spelling bot on linguistics themed subs where everyone was like “fck you descriptivist” and they were downvoted into oblivion

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fck you descriptivist

You mean prescriptivist? 😅

(beep boom I’m a human)

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My favorite was the would of/would’ve bot.

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I feel like I haven’t seen a single person use “could of” or “would of” here.

The defense on Reddit was always “NOT EVERY1 ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE”

I don’t have the largest sample size, but I’ve never met someone who makes this mistake whose first language isn’t English.

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I kind’ve feel the same way.

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