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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Most authors I've run into despise grammar checkers.
There's a reason the term "grammar nazis" exist; people want to express their ideas in their own voice, with their own cadences, constructions, and expressions, regardless of what the rules may demand.
"Rules are meant for breaking" is the mantra of most good writers. The trick is knowing when and how. A "writing assistant AI" would go insane trying to reconcile the various styles of different writers, to say nothing of the speech patterns of characters.
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Unfortunately many people simply don't know how to write correct English. Look at MR: we are supposedly a literate community, and yet consider how many people here don't know how to use the possessive pronoun "its" correctly. It's fine to break the rules, but a prerequisite for doing so is having a good understanding of those rules.