Apparently, Using Commas Makes You A Bot

 While scrolling through TikTok today, I came across a post that, honestly, made me question the state of our collective brains. A guy had asked a girl out on Snapchat, and she replied with a long message explaining, quite ruthlessly, why she could never date him. Her tone was piercing and her words were indeed brutal but her grammar? It was impeccable. Every comma, every full stop, was perfectly in place. This guy posted it online, obviously because he’s hurt and his caption was that all she had to do was say no instead of delivering a whole dissertation of rejection. Fair. But that’s not what got to me. What got me was what I saw in the comments. One guy actually said, “She definitely used AI to type that. The punctuation is too clean.” That rubbish nearly made me shut off my phone. Too clean? Since when did knowing how to punctuate a sentence make someone an artificial being? Are we seriously at a point where articulating thoughts clearly makes people assume a robot wrote it? Maybe I’m overthinking it, but it feels a little insulting. It’s as if we’ve collectively decided that humans are only capable of chaos, that a well-placed semicolon is suspicious and a coherent paragraph must have come from a machine. What happened to the days when we actually paid attention in English class? Some of us took writing seriously. We cared about words, how they sounded, how they felt, how they looked on paper. We weren’t doing it to impress anyone. We just wanted our sentences to read like art.  And now, because of AI, people assume that anything that sounds too polished must be artificial. Anyway, newsflash, not everyone slept through grammar lessons. Some of us actually loved them. Some of us still think about the rhythm of a sentence before hitting the post button. Yes that girl was rude but he shouldn’t have dragged grammar into it. It’s not okay to assume fluency equals fakery. Some of us still bleed poetry through punctuation. Some of us still love language for what it can do. And if that makes us sound like AI, then maybe the machines are finally learning from us not the other way around. ^{[img](https://pixabay.com/photos/computer-artificial-intelligence-7718732/) [img2](https://pixabay.com/photos/book-volume-french-grammar-1347514/)}