Generative AI ruins common sentence structures, author laments

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-07-16 09:42

The author expresses a strong aversion to the "It's not X, it's Y" sentence structure, likening it to a personal pet peeve that has been ruined by the prevalence of generative AI. This linguistic pattern, once appreciated, now evokes a physical cringe response due to its overuse. AI

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I literally can't read "It's not X, it's Y," now without physically cringing. Like my once beloved em-dashes, negative parallelisms have been ruined for me by g

I literally can't read "It's not X, it's Y," now without physically cringing. Like my once beloved em-dashes, negative parallelisms have been ruined for me by generative AI. # AI

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I literally can't read "It's not X, it's Y," now without physically cringing. Like my once beloved em-dashes, negative parallelisms have been ruined for me by g

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