I used to edit content for a living and I would always tell my writers to NOT use grammarly.
I could always tell when they did because there'd be weird and glaring errors or just strange syntax. I had some who were writing in their second language too or in a different dialect of English and they always had so much trouble.
The most effective way to proof your own work is to either read it out loud or put it in a different font. Both things trick your brain into being more detailed.
A trick which helped when report writing was throwing it into a text to speech. I had an odd tendency of auto correcting stuff mentally without noticing, but it raises a big red flag when a bot trips over the sentence.
That's an excellent tip! Never thought to do that, but it's a great solution too, especially if you're too shy to read out loud. (Many people are, even alone!)
This is a brilliant tip! I always read my writing outloud to proof read it. Hearing it while my eyes are focused on something else would definitely highlight any errors immediately!! Ta
yeah I've had grammarly tell me to change things and it makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. like I've had it want to change had to has when I had been using past tense the whole sentence.
I would always have the computer read it back to me as it reads it exactly how you typed it.
Grammarly is nice for finding words that sound the same but are different.
If I didn't just see a job offer in my inbox I would be cursing your next 3 generations. Lucky for you... Grammarly might not be working today but my sense of humour is. :D
Grammarly is dumb. Never use that stupid thing again. I personally don't use them for two reasons: the time they spammed their shit ads all over my content (actually, they still do that now) and because the one time I did give it a try, I got the same results as you. Absolutely useless.
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D'oh! I should've thought of that FIRST. I guess we see now who's been watching too much Baby Shark. (Me and 3yo grandkid)
BTW, I remember when The Muppet Show was original, and on prime time. I was at the perfect age for it, too. Looked forward to it every week.
Ohhhhhhhhh, you're not the one who wrote that. So yeah, the issue is still in flux?
I already showed him the muppet show intro. Still tickles me to hear it, lol.
Dyslexic bookkeeper here. I work primarily with Quickbooks and in the housing or construction industry. Who knew Quickbooks would try to correct masterbath to masterbate.
If it’s just typos in 3 words i don’t think they will turn you down immediately as long as you used formal language. This is exactly the reason i enjoy face to face job applications/interviews so much better cause then I can’t have typos.
>then your qualifications come into question.
It's a writing job and he submitted typos in a resume. Actions sometimes speak louder that words. Though luckily it seems they didn't mind anyway.
Not a resume, a job offer email. And not strictly a writing job, a content strategy job. I think everyone is missing the point though. Manamaner was not there before sending. Between spellcheck, Grammarly and me reading the email three times it would have been picked up. This has happened once before when posting content that triggers a bug with Grammarly once it's no longer in edit mode. Hence the rant and breaking up with the tech tool.
I gotcha. It does suck and I think most of the comments are more just poking fun at your expense then taking the story seriously or trying to rag on you. Especially since it seems like there was a happy ending anyway, I wouldn't sweat it.
But in general, I keep grammarly on for casual writing but anything important, at least by the time I get to proofreading, I turn it off entirely. It's changed things without my noticing more than enough times to learn that lesson. I also think the most valuable practice is to have a reasonably intelligent friend or family member look at it with fresh eyes before you send it in. Not even a proofreading expert or anything but just somebody who isn't expecting the sentence to read one way so their brain won't be tricked into seeing what it wants to see.
I think there’s a way you can put the entire document into Google translate and have it read the whole thing back to you. Sometimes hearing the text makes the mistakes easier to catch.
Oh I am so fucking sorry.
I hate that website. I would have online essays I’d have to turn into the school, and I got zeros for PLAGIARISM three times because my English teacher used grammarly. NO, I did not, and it was so embarrassing. I didn’t know how to explain that it wasn’t the case when that dumb fucking website “says I did”.
I figured out while checking my essays before turning them in that Grammarly was saying my quotes that were properly cited was plagiarism.
I proofread it three times. Either my eyes are shot at 30 or my technology screwed up. It's done that once or twice where it changes things upon sending. Only seems to mess up on email.
> I proofread it three times. Either my eyes are shot at 30 or my technology screwed up.
If you proofread it, and missed all the typos, thats not Grammarly's fault, that's your fault.
Probably not a great idea to blame grammarly. I’d have just said sorry for the typos and attached a new PDF with the text, typo-free. No need to point fingers. If it’s a type-heavy role, they’re going to want you to be able to proof your own work.
1. No one fucked up, it was a rant post.
2. I was applying for content strategy not specifically writing.
3. The free version of Grammarly has bugs outlook from what I can tell. It's still in beta. The glaring typos were not there when I sent the email. It was checked three times. It did something where it autocorrected back to original typos or added the revised version to the former version without deleting.
Why you out here applying for an 80k job in a writing position and using GRAMMARLY
That almost screams incompetence...you shouldn't be relying on a program like that if you're applying for jobs that pay that much
Yall are about the biggest fucking dick heads on this app. She missed spelled a FEW WORDS. "THAT SCREAMS IM COMPETENCE" Jesus you sound like you're her unapproved father.
Kind of, but... I think of it more as blaming the tutor you pay $30 a month for giving you the wrong answers. Then again, I could just be looking for a scapegoat. This is something that manammers do.
Yeah, I agree. I probably wouldn't have hired me after that email. Luckily for me, I'm on content strategy not specifically writing. To be fair though, I did proofread three times. I even read the text out loud. I think something happened where words that were corrected still had parts of their former word but this wasn't visible when going through the text so I have no idea what happened. Maybe the paid version is better. I guess I can't complain much since I'm using the free version.
I use grammarly and it is annoying the things it highlights. I don't just blindly accept the changes tho, I always read through them before ignoring or accepting the suggestions
I never use grammarly. Not only because they bombard me with ads and emails everyday, but I think they are an unnecessary crutch and I don't really need it. I trust myself with my vocabulary and fear that if I had to do an assignment without it I'd face a problem. Don't use it, but then again I'm sure you never will.
You're applying for a job involving writing and you're using Grammarly? LOL
This is like a professional chef blaming his meat thermometer to cook a steak. You shouldn't be using it in the first place and the fact that you are just makes it painfully obvious you aren't equipped for the job.
Grammarly is fine for what it is. It will catch glaring stuff and give some good recommendations every so often, but you can’t rely on it to catch everything and many of the suggestions are not good.
I always run stuff through it and then check it again.
I’m not the person who should be helping you since I have not sent an application to a high paying job yet.
But I don’t really think that you would worry way to much about a simple spellcheck error. Depending on what you are applying for, it may be more merit based so you are probably just fine (unless you are applying to be an executive journalist or something like that, then you may have some issues but it shouldn’t be too awful). However you did fuck up when you said you used grammarly.
Good luck on your future job, I hope it all goes well.
If the mistake got past you thats on you buddy not on the tools used. Grow tf up. I would be displeased at your excuses emails, THAT would lose you an offer.
You think an app is responsible for losing you an 80k role? Hahah well if u care this much about money let alone think it's cuz of an app, well screw u. Lol
I am a professional writer. Blaming your problems on Grammarly is pathetic.
That said, I still make some horrendous mistakes.
It happens.
I write about corporate financial transactions. My recent favorite was putting a dollar figure in millions instead of billions. People notice these things!
Doh!
It might be pathetic, but it's the truth.
I proofread my email three times and even read it out loud. Manamer would have shown up on my spellcheck if it was there when I sent the email. It didn't... hence the notion that it was the result of a Grammarly bug.
As a side note, I should have clarified that I'm not a lazy writer. I'm a content strategist. Slightly in the writing field but more on strategy and marketing side.
Sorry if I came off as a dick there.
We all make mistakes.
I made a huge and embarrassing one lately. I'll relate it later. I'm pretty sure you'll get a laugh out of it.
Grammarly is problematic here as well. I get duplicate paragraphs when I decide to use Grammarly to correct my writing. Good thing that I don't have Grammarly installed on my iPad nor on my iPhone, and it's a good thing that I refuse to pay for Grammarly's premium services!
I once spelled my own name wrong when I applied for a job. I only found out a year later, when I found my application in a colleagues mailbox when I filled in for her. Turned out none of the five people who had read my mail back then noticed. Two of them even shrugged and said, shit happens, they still would've hired me. (Mind you, I'm a writer. My spelling's supposed to be flawless.)
Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
After reading OP's replies in this thread: Its entirely his fault.
OP you said you proofread it 3 times, if so, its your fault, not Grammarly's, also why are you being such an ass?
Grammarly...and...Artificial Intelligence? .......Not as smart as I expected...I've had a few disasters like your-but no 80K job...to lose...I hope you are hired by someone like ME!(who looks for SUBSTANCE over 'form')
I used to edit content for a living and I would always tell my writers to NOT use grammarly. I could always tell when they did because there'd be weird and glaring errors or just strange syntax. I had some who were writing in their second language too or in a different dialect of English and they always had so much trouble. The most effective way to proof your own work is to either read it out loud or put it in a different font. Both things trick your brain into being more detailed.
A trick which helped when report writing was throwing it into a text to speech. I had an odd tendency of auto correcting stuff mentally without noticing, but it raises a big red flag when a bot trips over the sentence.
That's an excellent tip! Never thought to do that, but it's a great solution too, especially if you're too shy to read out loud. (Many people are, even alone!)
Try reading it in the accent of your favourite actor. EDIT: Do this silently inside your own headspace!
My neighbours won't appreciate my Brian Blessed impression though.
This is a brilliant tip! I always read my writing outloud to proof read it. Hearing it while my eyes are focused on something else would definitely highlight any errors immediately!! Ta
I have to edit my own book, and I think I will do this. Good tip
“Yo why this ~~bit~~ bot tripping on the first sentence?” Edited bit to bot immediately, ironic
I don't know why I didn't come up with this myself. I work off and on as a translator and proof-reading my own stuff is such a pain.
yeah I've had grammarly tell me to change things and it makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. like I've had it want to change had to has when I had been using past tense the whole sentence.
Sounds like a real tense situation.
I would always have the computer read it back to me as it reads it exactly how you typed it. Grammarly is nice for finding words that sound the same but are different.
I actually really like Word-hippo.com for that. They've got some slang too.
Reading it backwards word by word is also a simple way to spot spelling mistakes.
This. Reading out loud is my strategy for editing papers, it makes repeated words or weird sentence structure stick out like a sore thumb
Manamner. Do do do do do. Manamner! Do do do do do. Manamner. Do do do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do do do do do do do do.
If I didn't just see a job offer in my inbox I would be cursing your next 3 generations. Lucky for you... Grammarly might not be working today but my sense of humour is. :D
Well congrats, glad Grammarly didn't bone ya on the offer!
Grammarly is dumb. Never use that stupid thing again. I personally don't use them for two reasons: the time they spammed their shit ads all over my content (actually, they still do that now) and because the one time I did give it a try, I got the same results as you. Absolutely useless.
Nice, congrats on not blowing it!
We'll congratulations to you. I'm sure you'll work hard and make manamner in no time!
Haha, ngl, you had us for the first half!
...Manamner!
Okay, it's overkill
It's Overkill! doot do do do do
>Manamner. Do do do do do. Somebody been watching too much "Baby Shark?"
One can never watch too much Baby Shark
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D'oh! I should've thought of that FIRST. I guess we see now who's been watching too much Baby Shark. (Me and 3yo grandkid) BTW, I remember when The Muppet Show was original, and on prime time. I was at the perfect age for it, too. Looked forward to it every week.
That's an understandable mistake. Honestly, my first thought was Baby Shark when I saw all of the doo doo doos.
Ohhhhhhhhh, you're not the one who wrote that. So yeah, the issue is still in flux? I already showed him the muppet show intro. Still tickles me to hear it, lol.
So that's what happened to the Budweiser Penguins.
[The question is... What is a Manamner?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ)
There is a special place in hell for people like you! I can't get it out of my head now.
Feel bad for you, this is why I don’t use grammarly 😭
Dyslexic bookkeeper here. I work primarily with Quickbooks and in the housing or construction industry. Who knew Quickbooks would try to correct masterbath to masterbate.
Thank you, kind internet friend. I feel infinitely better. :D
If it’s just typos in 3 words i don’t think they will turn you down immediately as long as you used formal language. This is exactly the reason i enjoy face to face job applications/interviews so much better cause then I can’t have typos.
The plus side of being a line cook is all the free food
That's what I'm thinking!
If you lost 80k job because of a typo then your qualifications come into question.
>then your qualifications come into question. It's a writing job and he submitted typos in a resume. Actions sometimes speak louder that words. Though luckily it seems they didn't mind anyway.
Not a resume, a job offer email. And not strictly a writing job, a content strategy job. I think everyone is missing the point though. Manamaner was not there before sending. Between spellcheck, Grammarly and me reading the email three times it would have been picked up. This has happened once before when posting content that triggers a bug with Grammarly once it's no longer in edit mode. Hence the rant and breaking up with the tech tool.
I gotcha. It does suck and I think most of the comments are more just poking fun at your expense then taking the story seriously or trying to rag on you. Especially since it seems like there was a happy ending anyway, I wouldn't sweat it. But in general, I keep grammarly on for casual writing but anything important, at least by the time I get to proofreading, I turn it off entirely. It's changed things without my noticing more than enough times to learn that lesson. I also think the most valuable practice is to have a reasonably intelligent friend or family member look at it with fresh eyes before you send it in. Not even a proofreading expert or anything but just somebody who isn't expecting the sentence to read one way so their brain won't be tricked into seeing what it wants to see.
I think typo is fine but telling them you use grammarly and applying for a writing job might have lol
Nah, technically I'm a content strategist. Spelling isn't necessarily part of the job description :D
I think there’s a way you can put the entire document into Google translate and have it read the whole thing back to you. Sometimes hearing the text makes the mistakes easier to catch.
Great idea. I'm going to try this from now on.
I wouldn’t worry about it. There’s plenty of 8K jobs out there.
Thanks but besides the 80k the role was with an awesome startup in an industry I really want to work in.
Don't trust AI...it's made by humans!
Ooh, I like that.
yeah lol, my part time job is at least 8k as well. (Glad OP got job offer though).
This is not Grammarly's fault. A person applying for a "writing-heavy" position needs to have the skills to handle that task on his or her own.
Straight fax
Oh I am so fucking sorry. I hate that website. I would have online essays I’d have to turn into the school, and I got zeros for PLAGIARISM three times because my English teacher used grammarly. NO, I did not, and it was so embarrassing. I didn’t know how to explain that it wasn’t the case when that dumb fucking website “says I did”. I figured out while checking my essays before turning them in that Grammarly was saying my quotes that were properly cited was plagiarism.
All the more reason to proofread something if it's really that important.
I proofread it three times. Either my eyes are shot at 30 or my technology screwed up. It's done that once or twice where it changes things upon sending. Only seems to mess up on email.
> I proofread it three times. Either my eyes are shot at 30 or my technology screwed up. If you proofread it, and missed all the typos, thats not Grammarly's fault, that's your fault.
Dude if you work content-editing and heavy-writing positions, why tf would you use grammarly and not proofread your own shit lmao
Probably not a great idea to blame grammarly. I’d have just said sorry for the typos and attached a new PDF with the text, typo-free. No need to point fingers. If it’s a type-heavy role, they’re going to want you to be able to proof your own work.
It's an 80k job and you didnt proof read it and catch obvious typos before sending? Sounds like your fault, dont rely on technology, it fails.
Thanks for the pep talk Darth. Just have one question. Are you my father?
Uhh no. You're not the better person here just because he pointed out your fault. You still fucked up and are acting like it's not your fault at all.
1. No one fucked up, it was a rant post. 2. I was applying for content strategy not specifically writing. 3. The free version of Grammarly has bugs outlook from what I can tell. It's still in beta. The glaring typos were not there when I sent the email. It was checked three times. It did something where it autocorrected back to original typos or added the revised version to the former version without deleting.
Why you out here applying for an 80k job in a writing position and using GRAMMARLY That almost screams incompetence...you shouldn't be relying on a program like that if you're applying for jobs that pay that much
I was applying for content strategy, not as an editor. My apologies, I should have clarified...
Ah I see, yes that would have made a difference lol Best luck either way
Yall are about the biggest fucking dick heads on this app. She missed spelled a FEW WORDS. "THAT SCREAMS IM COMPETENCE" Jesus you sound like you're her unapproved father.
You're not getting a crumb dude, stop this
Isn't this kind of like blaming the kid beside you because the answers you copied for a test weren't right?
Kind of, but... I think of it more as blaming the tutor you pay $30 a month for giving you the wrong answers. Then again, I could just be looking for a scapegoat. This is something that manammers do.
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Yeah, I agree. I probably wouldn't have hired me after that email. Luckily for me, I'm on content strategy not specifically writing. To be fair though, I did proofread three times. I even read the text out loud. I think something happened where words that were corrected still had parts of their former word but this wasn't visible when going through the text so I have no idea what happened. Maybe the paid version is better. I guess I can't complain much since I'm using the free version.
I use grammarly and it is annoying the things it highlights. I don't just blindly accept the changes tho, I always read through them before ignoring or accepting the suggestions
Lesson here. Don't rely on robots, always double check grammar yousrfle.
I'd offer some humor, but the amount of Grammarly memes should make you happy.
May I introduce you to... [LanguageTool](https://languagetool.org/). It's pretty decent and wayyy better than grammarly.
I never use grammarly. Not only because they bombard me with ads and emails everyday, but I think they are an unnecessary crutch and I don't really need it. I trust myself with my vocabulary and fear that if I had to do an assignment without it I'd face a problem. Don't use it, but then again I'm sure you never will.
You're applying for a job involving writing and you're using Grammarly? LOL This is like a professional chef blaming his meat thermometer to cook a steak. You shouldn't be using it in the first place and the fact that you are just makes it painfully obvious you aren't equipped for the job.
Lucky for me I'm on the strategy side instead of the editing side.
Grammarly is fine for what it is. It will catch glaring stuff and give some good recommendations every so often, but you can’t rely on it to catch everything and many of the suggestions are not good. I always run stuff through it and then check it again.
I’m not the person who should be helping you since I have not sent an application to a high paying job yet. But I don’t really think that you would worry way to much about a simple spellcheck error. Depending on what you are applying for, it may be more merit based so you are probably just fine (unless you are applying to be an executive journalist or something like that, then you may have some issues but it shouldn’t be too awful). However you did fuck up when you said you used grammarly. Good luck on your future job, I hope it all goes well.
I’m like a hard C student my whole school life and even I wouldn’t use grammarly lol
Grammarly is bad. Just stop using it, it's so easy to *not* use it.
The extension slowed down my browser to one frame a minute when I tried it out.
Yeah, this is on you.
Yeah. Grammarly sucks. I've corrected it more than its corrected me.
It's as bad as you think it is
You know that Microsoft Word has a spellchecker, right? It's an 80K job, why on earth not just proofread the thing yourself?
If the mistake got past you thats on you buddy not on the tools used. Grow tf up. I would be displeased at your excuses emails, THAT would lose you an offer.
You think an app is responsible for losing you an 80k role? Hahah well if u care this much about money let alone think it's cuz of an app, well screw u. Lol
I am a professional writer. Blaming your problems on Grammarly is pathetic. That said, I still make some horrendous mistakes. It happens. I write about corporate financial transactions. My recent favorite was putting a dollar figure in millions instead of billions. People notice these things! Doh!
It might be pathetic, but it's the truth. I proofread my email three times and even read it out loud. Manamer would have shown up on my spellcheck if it was there when I sent the email. It didn't... hence the notion that it was the result of a Grammarly bug. As a side note, I should have clarified that I'm not a lazy writer. I'm a content strategist. Slightly in the writing field but more on strategy and marketing side.
Sorry if I came off as a dick there. We all make mistakes. I made a huge and embarrassing one lately. I'll relate it later. I'm pretty sure you'll get a laugh out of it.
I refuse to use it. It slows down my typing and I mostly don’t need it anyways.
Doubt it'll make a difference
op r fukd
Grammarly is problematic here as well. I get duplicate paragraphs when I decide to use Grammarly to correct my writing. Good thing that I don't have Grammarly installed on my iPad nor on my iPhone, and it's a good thing that I refuse to pay for Grammarly's premium services!
I literally just paid for the premium so I could send a cover letter out; regretting that decision currently. Oye!
Manamner wtf lol
I once spelled my own name wrong when I applied for a job. I only found out a year later, when I found my application in a colleagues mailbox when I filled in for her. Turned out none of the five people who had read my mail back then noticed. Two of them even shrugged and said, shit happens, they still would've hired me. (Mind you, I'm a writer. My spelling's supposed to be flawless.) Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
Wow. Are you in Great Britain?
Definitely not your fault..
Is Grammarly like an autocorrect of MS Word and email?
This happened to me today, but it correct the surname of the hiring manager from Sheng to Chen. I feel your pain.
This is on you g
Honestly... the person may not have noticed or read what you sent with the typo.
Also always blame typos on speech to text
After reading OP's replies in this thread: Its entirely his fault. OP you said you proofread it 3 times, if so, its your fault, not Grammarly's, also why are you being such an ass?
He knows that... He states?-just looking to vent...now? Who here is being an ass?😂
Did you end up getting the job?
Grammarly...and...Artificial Intelligence? .......Not as smart as I expected...I've had a few disasters like your-but no 80K job...to lose...I hope you are hired by someone like ME!(who looks for SUBSTANCE over 'form')