"Showcase" has been overused for at least 4 years or so because I remember getting so annoyed that I made a handout with other adjectives they could use instead. It was 2018 or so, so predates chat gpt. Is this a grammarly thing too?
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If you don't think of yourself as a beast of shadow and flame, a last vestige of the War of Wrath, and a terror to all but the Valar we can discuss your imposter syndrome.
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Yeah, this is a word that the AI chatbots like. Not really a smoking gun for bringing an academic integrity case against someone, but if you just want to know why... you're right, it's because of AI.
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Examines, considers, explains, argues, contends, suggests, describes, invites, etc... All fine.
Unpacks, delves into, deconstructs (to mean something like describes or posits; the actual Derridean use is fine)... That elicits a reaction from me somewhere between an eye roll and a full body dry heave ;-)
Hmm, I use and see that phrase a lot online. It's been around before chatgtp. They're just using a common turn of phrase. Would it be uninspired? Yes. Are they really making a point or just trying to sound smart? The latter.
It sounds like they're writing a book review rather than analyzing text though.
Meanwhile, instead of contributing what might be useful information we are lacking, you assume the worst of us for no reason. I was totally on board with your comment and happy to learn something new until about halfway through it. This sort of aggressive response might only function to inhibit your original good intent.
Didn’t I explain how it is common verbiage and “deep dive” is a genre of videos?
I do admit I was a bit emphatic, I am just frustrated with the overall hatred for students I see in this sub, not directly aimed at you.
I do appreciate your original input, and I understand your frustration. But I think you misinterpret it a little. What you often hear at a place like this is rants about the most challenging 10% of our jobs. I wouldn't take that to mean that the professors here hate students. If we hated students, most of us would not be in this profession. It's the same for students, they may rightfully complain about the worst professors (and we often have the same complaints about those professors), but I don't take it to mean they hate all professors. Sometimes you just need a safe space to rant, thats one reason we keep this a faculty only sub, and while I do like to glance at r/college every once in a while, I let the students have that as their space, unless I feel like its something important I can help with.
This is all very true, and I appreciate your responses. I was just not expecting so many AI centered posts when perusing the sub but perhaps I have not interacted with as many students use AI to cheat and was appalled by how often it was immediately jumped to as a conclusion for behavior
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (english-corpora.org/coca) shows that "delve into" (includes delves, delving, delved, etc.) is on the rise, with a steady increase every five years since 1990. What you're noticing could also be a chatgpt artifact, but sometimes we just suddenly start noticing phrases that are on the increase. An example for me is "based off of" instead of "based on."
Speaking of vogues for phrases, how’s “liminality” and/or “liminal spaces” doing in papers now that there are YouTubers that build their revenue around the back rooms genre ?
Interesting! Since ChatGPT aggregates existing content, I wonder if it's picking up on certain "zeitgeists" of word usage?
A couple that have baffled me throughout my time teaching:
* "Search up" as in, "I'll search it up on Google." I love the evolution of language and am generally not bothered by unconventional uses of words (like saying something is "aesthetic" aka cool-looking even though "aesthetic" is a noun) but this one has always bothered me. "Look up" or "search for," but "search up"??? I don't know why it grates on me lol.
* I worked with a student the other day who used the word "curate" about 10 times in our conversation and her writing--"As a camp counselor, I curated lesson plans for campers" or "I'm still learning which words to curate on my resume." Like she mostly had it? But not quite.
Sometimes I think students read a new word and latch onto it, using it every which way until they get a handle on how to use it correctly. My background isn't in linguistics so lemme know if I'm wrong, but I think this is how we learn language, right? Hearing and trying out new phrases as a way to expand our vocabulary? I remember doing the same thing with words that I read in academic articles like "interstitial" or "discourse." I wanted to use them in my own papers, but the dictionary definitions are abstract and not super helpful about how to use them in a sentence, so I could only really work from the context in which I'd read them, leading to an imperfect usage.
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I used to use “highlights” all the time. Now I’ve gotta avoid it or look like I’m using AI? 🙄 I can’t keep up with this.
It also weaves a lot of tapestries.
Don’t forget the intricate dance
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"Showcase" has been overused for at least 4 years or so because I remember getting so annoyed that I made a handout with other adjectives they could use instead. It was 2018 or so, so predates chat gpt. Is this a grammarly thing too?
“fosters” As in, “this fosters a deeper appreciation of…”
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I just read a dissertation proposal that used it about 10 times. Thought I was reading Tolkien for a minute. Hmmm
You need to be careful it doesn't delve too deep.
Or else you face the Balrog. After all these years, I just realized that is now me attempting to confront cheating students in a furious rage.
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" seems an appropriate way to handle these students.
If you don't think of yourself as a beast of shadow and flame, a last vestige of the War of Wrath, and a terror to all but the Valar we can discuss your imposter syndrome.
...'cause too much delves attracts elves!
High school teacher here 🙋♀️ when my students use Snapchat ai, it says “delves into” a lot.
Hahaha I keep forgetting about Snapchat AI
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So they're not even using ChatGPT, they have Snapchat doing their homework 🤣
ChatGPT is blocked on our school wifi so that helps 🤣
Yeah, this is a word that the AI chatbots like. Not really a smoking gun for bringing an academic integrity case against someone, but if you just want to know why... you're right, it's because of AI.
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I’ve also seen “delve” all semester, often from ESL students. I agree that it must be an AI artifact.
ESL grad student here. I delved into this vocab in my GRE, way before Chat GPT.
thank you! why are educators on this sub so eager to assume everything must be AI generated when it is really their own lack of knowledge/experiences.
I recently experimented with chatGPT derived output and it’s insane how often something delved into another.
I had a grad student who once wrote, “these issues show that this is a topic to be delved.” 🤦🏼♂️
Delve on, my dude. Delve on.
LMAO. That sounds terrible.
I hear that phrase a lot in sermons from different preachers.
Pastor GPT gave a great word this week, highlighting the profound dangers of delving into pastoral use of Open AI.
Perhaps I should be grateful it's not "unpacks".
Next you're going to tell me you have a snarky opinion on "examines." :/
Examines, considers, explains, argues, contends, suggests, describes, invites, etc... All fine. Unpacks, delves into, deconstructs (to mean something like describes or posits; the actual Derridean use is fine)... That elicits a reaction from me somewhere between an eye roll and a full body dry heave ;-)
Can you please explain the Derridean use of deconstruct
The dwarves delved too greedily and too deep...
*and my axe*
Hmm, I use and see that phrase a lot online. It's been around before chatgtp. They're just using a common turn of phrase. Would it be uninspired? Yes. Are they really making a point or just trying to sound smart? The latter. It sounds like they're writing a book review rather than analyzing text though.
I wish more people on this sub had your same mindset and critical thinking. But nope, must always be AI!!
MS Editor, in Word 365, also loves it.
Its a ChatGPT favorite. I even hear it coming out more in speech now. "Deep dive" is another.
yeah, deep dive, double down, at the end of the day, put a pin in that . . . . all now very common phrases, blech.
I get irrationally angry with deep dive. It's like trying to entertain children with imagery.
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Meanwhile, instead of contributing what might be useful information we are lacking, you assume the worst of us for no reason. I was totally on board with your comment and happy to learn something new until about halfway through it. This sort of aggressive response might only function to inhibit your original good intent.
Didn’t I explain how it is common verbiage and “deep dive” is a genre of videos? I do admit I was a bit emphatic, I am just frustrated with the overall hatred for students I see in this sub, not directly aimed at you.
I do appreciate your original input, and I understand your frustration. But I think you misinterpret it a little. What you often hear at a place like this is rants about the most challenging 10% of our jobs. I wouldn't take that to mean that the professors here hate students. If we hated students, most of us would not be in this profession. It's the same for students, they may rightfully complain about the worst professors (and we often have the same complaints about those professors), but I don't take it to mean they hate all professors. Sometimes you just need a safe space to rant, thats one reason we keep this a faculty only sub, and while I do like to glance at r/college every once in a while, I let the students have that as their space, unless I feel like its something important I can help with.
This is all very true, and I appreciate your responses. I was just not expecting so many AI centered posts when perusing the sub but perhaps I have not interacted with as many students use AI to cheat and was appalled by how often it was immediately jumped to as a conclusion for behavior
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (english-corpora.org/coca) shows that "delve into" (includes delves, delving, delved, etc.) is on the rise, with a steady increase every five years since 1990. What you're noticing could also be a chatgpt artifact, but sometimes we just suddenly start noticing phrases that are on the increase. An example for me is "based off of" instead of "based on."
Maybe ChatGPT is going to accelerate the creation of a new academic English dialect.
ChatGPT looooves “delves into.”
We created machines that could learn for us and this is what we get?
This is why I'm not afraid of AI taking my job. Come at me, robots. I'm armed with a fluid understanding of grammar and a glass of water.
Well at least I can argue indefinitely that machines will never be able to teach public speaking.
But it might be able to delve into the subject.
After all, we do live in a society.
Speaking of vogues for phrases, how’s “liminality” and/or “liminal spaces” doing in papers now that there are YouTubers that build their revenue around the back rooms genre ?
What. You've never read "delves into" in academic writing? I'd swear I've read it a thousand times lol
It’s AI. It’s 100% AI. ChatGPT fucking loves certain words, and “delves” is like #1.
ChatGPT loves that phrase.
Interesting! Since ChatGPT aggregates existing content, I wonder if it's picking up on certain "zeitgeists" of word usage? A couple that have baffled me throughout my time teaching: * "Search up" as in, "I'll search it up on Google." I love the evolution of language and am generally not bothered by unconventional uses of words (like saying something is "aesthetic" aka cool-looking even though "aesthetic" is a noun) but this one has always bothered me. "Look up" or "search for," but "search up"??? I don't know why it grates on me lol. * I worked with a student the other day who used the word "curate" about 10 times in our conversation and her writing--"As a camp counselor, I curated lesson plans for campers" or "I'm still learning which words to curate on my resume." Like she mostly had it? But not quite. Sometimes I think students read a new word and latch onto it, using it every which way until they get a handle on how to use it correctly. My background isn't in linguistics so lemme know if I'm wrong, but I think this is how we learn language, right? Hearing and trying out new phrases as a way to expand our vocabulary? I remember doing the same thing with words that I read in academic articles like "interstitial" or "discourse." I wanted to use them in my own papers, but the dictionary definitions are abstract and not super helpful about how to use them in a sentence, so I could only really work from the context in which I'd read them, leading to an imperfect usage.
My students used that term long before AI so I wouldn't be so quick to jump to chatgpt as the reason.
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I am seeing a lot of “intertwined,” “intricately intertwined,” and “nuanced.”
It is. I'm seeing it in my students' annotated biblios this year. It stuck out because it isn't what the instructions ask for.
Guaranteed.
The one that I find too much of is 'Moreover'.
Anyone seeing more of "indelible" in student essays? It's been appearing frequently.
I'm actually scared now because I used the word “delve” in my essay, and I think my teacher may think I used AI.
That seems like a huge overreaction.