Consider this discussion about the Golden State Warriors :
Including these gems :
It gets worse. The sentences are sort of understandable because I’ve been following the Warriors, but none of them really make any sense. Every single sentence is full of the most unusual errors, but everything is spelled accurately, and the punctuation is as good or better than you might expect from any average English writer.
Reading more articles by the same writer uncovers another massive mess of confusion.
I machne-translated the paragraph into Russian, then to Thai, then to Norwegian, then back to English. It came out like this:
Golden State Warriors are a good part of the league, the NBA. This is why they have Stephen Curry Draymond Green, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson, who is considered one of the NBA All-Star, but maintain the ability of the player, the more expensive considerably. Obviously, as we all know.
jt, your translation was actually more readable to me, riiiight up to the very last bit about maintaining the ability, than the original as posted in the op. It just seemed to flow better.
The style of writing is something I’ve been seeing more and more around the 'net. Might be a bit of confirmation bias though. I read an article on cnet a couple years back about robot written articles that had a link to such a piece. The purportedly robo-written essay looked and read very much like what the OP posted.
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Every single entry in the 15 part clickbait series is written in the same way with a simple introduction of the actor and then some totally weird sentences about what was wrong with his participation in the movie.
To me it reads as some kind of formula that you could program a computer to write.
I have taught roughly 700 freshman composition students over the years. Trust me, there is nothing remotely unusual or robotic about that writing style; it’s fairly typical of a semi-skilled writer who may not be a native English speaker. The tendency to fall back on repetitive formulas, like beginning every entry with “[Name] was born in [place] on [date],” is extremely common in people who don’t write well. The combination of a fairly sophisticated vocabulary (“stereotypical,” “immaturity”) with low-level grammar mistakes (“couldn’t be” for “can’t have been,” the superfluous “the” before “excellent acting skills”) is less common, but typical of international students. (And of course everything is spelled correctly; spelling is easy to check and correct with technology. It’s all the other aspects of writing that are hard.)
Well, this is an example of text written by a computer. The most obvious difference from human-generated text is that the computer clearly has no idea what words mean, making the results utterly surreal.
I normally text everything. The text program gives word suggestions based on my previous input. Sometimes my word choice is not given in the selection. But, there are suitable words that wouldn’t cloud my intended meaning. And I may choose one of them, instead of key stroking a baby keyboard.
So, I guess you could say my texts are co-written by a robot.