The post has formal grammar throughout and no abbreviations/slang/starting sentences in lowercase or run-on sentences. Whereas all OOP’s replies are like “smh she woulda kicked me out I lit can’t afford 2 i js needa finish school”. AI bells are ringing!
Former newspaper copy editor here. I cannot write a.m. or p.m. without periods. Did I do it before I was a copy editor? Not alwaya, but I started writing for newspapers when I was 16. It's pretty ingrained. Then again, I only use abbreviations in texts with my daughter, brother and a lifelong friend; they're not always standard text abbreviations, just things we use from shared histories. So, not the best comparison.... But, I get accused of being AI on Reddit with, likely, a greater degree of frequency than most actual humans.
Interesting, do you still do copy? I’ve been a copy writer for a while now and there’s been a switch to omitting the periods in web copy for a more modern look. Most online news I read follows this format as well. I’m not trying to like disprove you or anything, but am genuinely curious if this shift has taken off everywhere. (It took me for freaking ever to stop the double spaced after periods ha)
I do not. (And I never got over the double spacing, as you can see.) I'm retired. I did my whole newspaper career (25 years) prior to the downfall of print and then switched to writing tech documentation for software companies for the remainder of my working life after my last print paper (small market) folded. That was in the 90s. I suspect style has changed considerably since then. It goes through fluctuations.
My main journalism prof had retired from Newsweek prior to teaching and he used to talk about changes to styles over time while discussing style guides. I actually wrote a style guide for a major telecom company once early in the tech writing phase. That company was doing early Blackberry comm at the time and the branch I worked for still does cell phones.
I have noticed over time as their style adapted to web norms and changed some of the things included in my original guide - which had also been adopted by marketing. I was asked to add a bunch of pure marketing style into that guide before I left, including such things as color swatches with hex values and how to refer to specific products and promos properly. One of the things they modified in their copy over the years is just this. I'm not sure when I first noticed that. I'm thinking around 10 years ago.
i mean i don’t type with proper grammar unless i’m typing a long passage ‘cause i can get away with it otherwise (without it being hard to read, anyway)
Some of my family lived out of state when I was a kid so they'd come in early and stay for the week. But that was three people and whatever flavor of the month my cousin was dating. I don't even think I know 20 people close enough to bring them to my house.
Honestly the people falling for this don’t even bother me that much… but all the people saying the plating is beautiful is causing my brain cells to die at a rapid rate.
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apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing”
This was my first Christmas with my mom’s new boyfriend. She invited his entire immediate family on top of the family we already had coming, so there were about 20 people total. My mom woke me up at 6 a.m. and asked me to make breakfast about 30 minutes before everyone arrived because she still needed to get ready. She also hadn’t gone grocery shopping, so I had to work with whatever was already in the fridge.
I genuinely did the best I could and spent the morning cooking and setting things up. While people were eating, my mom’s boyfriend’s mom commented that we were cheap for not using eggs and called the food “low effort.” Instead of explaining that we didn’t have any, my mom got upset and yelled at me in front of everyone, asking why I didn’t make eggs and saying I never do anything right. I didn’t argue or say anything. I just left the room.
It was frustrating to wake up early and help just to be criticized for something that wasn’t really in my control but oh well
This is an embarrassingly shit breakfast tbh. Bro really has to try claim he fed an army just to get some compliments for his completely mediocre breakfast
If I went to someone's for breakfast and they served this... I'd go to Denny's
Only thing I will say is a) could be earlier Christmas since families do celebrate Christmas earlier or later if they’re busy on Christmas Day (ex. In laws vs your parents, or if grandparents do seperate from parents, etc.) and b) why would there be butter or syrup on them they would get soggy before the guests comes and some people don’t like butter and some don’t like syrup (gasp people have preferences). I would have taken pictures of the whole meal but they chose to do one
Some people do have early Christmas gatherings, and OOP doesn't specify that this happened today, so it could've been, say, Saturday, so that part is believable. The rest, not so much.
Its not bad but the plating is so corporate looking. I have IBS and dont eat eggs. Honestly when making pancakes I didnt eat eggs with them when I could. But the lack of butter is egregious.
My go to breakfast combos were
Eggs over easy and fried potatoes/hashbrowns
Bacon and pancakes
eggs over easy, bacon, hashbrowns/fried potatoes
biscuits and gravy, eggs over easy, hashbrowns/fried potatoes, bacon
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The post has formal grammar throughout and no abbreviations/slang/starting sentences in lowercase or run-on sentences. Whereas all OOP’s replies are like “smh she woulda kicked me out I lit can’t afford 2 i js needa finish school”. AI bells are ringing!
I’ve never seen an actual human put periods between the A and M in 6am
Former newspaper copy editor here. I cannot write a.m. or p.m. without periods. Did I do it before I was a copy editor? Not alwaya, but I started writing for newspapers when I was 16. It's pretty ingrained. Then again, I only use abbreviations in texts with my daughter, brother and a lifelong friend; they're not always standard text abbreviations, just things we use from shared histories. So, not the best comparison.... But, I get accused of being AI on Reddit with, likely, a greater degree of frequency than most actual humans.
Interesting, do you still do copy? I’ve been a copy writer for a while now and there’s been a switch to omitting the periods in web copy for a more modern look. Most online news I read follows this format as well. I’m not trying to like disprove you or anything, but am genuinely curious if this shift has taken off everywhere. (It took me for freaking ever to stop the double spaced after periods ha)
I do not. (And I never got over the double spacing, as you can see.) I'm retired. I did my whole newspaper career (25 years) prior to the downfall of print and then switched to writing tech documentation for software companies for the remainder of my working life after my last print paper (small market) folded. That was in the 90s. I suspect style has changed considerably since then. It goes through fluctuations.
My main journalism prof had retired from Newsweek prior to teaching and he used to talk about changes to styles over time while discussing style guides. I actually wrote a style guide for a major telecom company once early in the tech writing phase. That company was doing early Blackberry comm at the time and the branch I worked for still does cell phones.
I have noticed over time as their style adapted to web norms and changed some of the things included in my original guide - which had also been adopted by marketing. I was asked to add a bunch of pure marketing style into that guide before I left, including such things as color swatches with hex values and how to refer to specific products and promos properly. One of the things they modified in their copy over the years is just this. I'm not sure when I first noticed that. I'm thinking around 10 years ago.
I only do that when writing LMAO
i mean i don’t type with proper grammar unless i’m typing a long passage ‘cause i can get away with it otherwise (without it being hard to read, anyway)
the comments writing violent fanfiction about the negligent mother 🫣
Who has 20 people over for breakfast in the early morning on a Tuesday 2 days before Christmas? That really doesn't make sense.
I know a lot of people take off extra time this week, but it was still a work day today.
Without buying groceries, even.
no but you see, someone's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate does it, so therefore it's a totally common thing
Some of my family lived out of state when I was a kid so they'd come in early and stay for the week. But that was three people and whatever flavor of the month my cousin was dating. I don't even think I know 20 people close enough to bring them to my house.
I'm off for the whole week, paid. Finally having a Christmas birthday is paying off.
Anyone who posts titles like this makes me instantly believe this never happened. It’s just fishing.
Shoulda picked up eggs when they went out and bought the 20 plates. If 20 people show up at my house they're eating out of frisbees and dog bowls.
Ha. Now im considering that this was all in fact, what was prepared for 20 people and the comments were merited
r/wewantplates
Funny enough..... I have 20 plates, but 4 are black and 10 are my fine china. But I COULD have everyone on plates.
Of course I'd use the fancy fakes for this, lmao.
"I made food for 20 people but I could only photograph one plate!"
No no that’s the entirety of what was served
No wonder they were grumpy.
Not gonna lie though those pancakes were terribly made
UGH I hate when my 6 AM breakfast the Tuesday before Christmas is made WRONG by the daughter of my relative’s new girlfriend!!
https://preview.redd.it/j7rxcqynr39g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b412a044e28c46d5978e539d140c7191b98d35b4
I believe you
i burst out laughing at the person saying they’d be thrilled to wake up to this. Dry-ass pancakes, two cat turds and a quarter of an apple? YUM
A perfect, non-brown apple. That 1 person sliced. While cooking for 20.
Yeah that makes absolute sense
They must be the math book apple people
Honestly the people falling for this don’t even bother me that much… but all the people saying the plating is beautiful is causing my brain cells to die at a rapid rate.
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apparently the breakfast i made was “embarrassing”
This was my first Christmas with my mom’s new boyfriend. She invited his entire immediate family on top of the family we already had coming, so there were about 20 people total. My mom woke me up at 6 a.m. and asked me to make breakfast about 30 minutes before everyone arrived because she still needed to get ready. She also hadn’t gone grocery shopping, so I had to work with whatever was already in the fridge.
I genuinely did the best I could and spent the morning cooking and setting things up. While people were eating, my mom’s boyfriend’s mom commented that we were cheap for not using eggs and called the food “low effort.” Instead of explaining that we didn’t have any, my mom got upset and yelled at me in front of everyone, asking why I didn’t make eggs and saying I never do anything right. I didn’t argue or say anything. I just left the room.
It was frustrating to wake up early and help just to be criticized for something that wasn’t really in my control but oh well
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I prefer granulated sugar on mine rather than syrup.
Just me though.
This is an embarrassingly shit breakfast tbh. Bro really has to try claim he fed an army just to get some compliments for his completely mediocre breakfast
If I went to someone's for breakfast and they served this... I'd go to Denny's
Only thing I will say is a) could be earlier Christmas since families do celebrate Christmas earlier or later if they’re busy on Christmas Day (ex. In laws vs your parents, or if grandparents do seperate from parents, etc.) and b) why would there be butter or syrup on them they would get soggy before the guests comes and some people don’t like butter and some don’t like syrup (gasp people have preferences). I would have taken pictures of the whole meal but they chose to do one
whoosh
Oh it’s a parody sorry Im dumb (I thought this was saying ppl are lying about their posts not jokes about it)
Some people do have early Christmas gatherings, and OOP doesn't specify that this happened today, so it could've been, say, Saturday, so that part is believable. The rest, not so much.
Its not bad but the plating is so corporate looking. I have IBS and dont eat eggs. Honestly when making pancakes I didnt eat eggs with them when I could. But the lack of butter is egregious.
My go to breakfast combos were