I'm struck by how advertisements for services like grammerly put the lie to the idea that there no economic value to the humanities. grammerly is a program that ties to replicate (poorly) the sort of prose stylistics that are precisely the sort of thing the humanities teach. 1/5
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
I disagree strenuously. I see Grammarly as a form of remedial education for those who went through permissive humanities programs that stressed self-expression at the expense of formal "excellence."
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @josephflaherty ja @BretDevereaux
It should be seen as a partner to humanities – it provides real time correction on the rote aspects of the discipline, freeing teacher up to focus on the higher ideas/purposes of their fields.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @josephflaherty
I see systems like it as a tool - but one a student should to move past. The 'rote' aspects of the discipline are not unimportant, not the least of which because we reason through speech and language. Words are not translations of our thoughts, they are our thoughts.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @BretDevereaux ja @josephflaherty
Consequently, clean communication is training for clean thinking (and also - yes, I'd argue that does mean that different languages might argue different ways). Cicero (De Orat. 1.32.144) makes the point - in his advice for orators, he gives speaking correctly *first*...
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...before invention (that is, topic selection and choice of evidence), before structure, before rhetorical flourish. "First, speak correctly, then grammatically, then clearly, then simply." If grammarly is a tool to get there, great. But it is not a tool *around* getting there.
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