#op doesn't know how to use commas

[yassqueen553]

Being an insomniac with ADHD is surreal beacuse like- the only reason you're actually an insomniac is because your ADHD brain decided, "nah, we're going to have a different circadian rhythm," so instead of sleeping well during the night like normal people, your body wants to sleep during the day.

So one day you take your normal 3 hour nap from 6pm-9pm, wake up, take your medications, start your nightly routine to get ready for actual bed, and try to sleep. But then suddenly it's 3 in the morning and you need to be up in 3 hours anyway so you decide, fuck it, and play pokemon instead of trying, and failing, to sleep.

So you end up going to your 8am-5pm job, sleep deprived, feeling a false sense of energy that you know will inevitabely crash, crash, get nauseous, then get a migraine, then cry because you can't tell if your coworker is upset with you or not for getting migraines because you're probaboy also autistic and can't tell verbal tones, go home and sleep for 2 hours, wake up and go to dinner that you made plans for, come home, and then crash. So you close your eyes to try and sleep, and after what feels like 5 min of having your eyes closed, you open your eyes and realize you've been sleeping for the past 3 hours. Then, rinse and repeat every hour for the next couple of hours.

Because, god forbid, even sleep deprived you can't peacefully sleep through the night because you have back assward insomnia thanks to your ADHD. And then, because you have ADHD, you spiral for an hour on social media and can't stop thinking about your day so you make a tumblr post about it instead that nobody will probably see anyway because tumblr is a bit of a dead media.

Or at least I would assume, anyway. Not like it's happened to me or anything.

[mashounen1945]

A few additional tips from the replies:

@maybefandomstuff:

"%23" is a tag, "%2C" is a comma, and "%20" is a space. However, it doesn't seem to work if you try to use the symbols for the tag and comma themselves because it redirects and breaks itself. You will need to use the "%23" and "%2C" in the URL.

@dragonaire:

That's because, for URLs, a lot of non-alphanumeric characters are reserved for specific functions in address retrieval. So, they need to be encoded; otherwise, your browser with think you mean something different than what you mean and the URL will be navigated incorrectly.

Also @dragonaire:

These are basically hard-coded links to pages that exist. Tumblr just isn't giving us a way to access them via the search bar. The only thing the OP is doing is letting you know how to generate that URL yourself instead of being limited by the search bar. If this doesn't work for you, then either you mis-formed the URL, or the terms you're searching have special characters that need to be encoded, or the query you searched just doesn't have any results.

@dzamie:

This is an "and" search. Though if you have three tags, "#foo", "#bar" and "#foo bar", searching for "#foo, #bar" will return posts tagged both "#foo" and "#bar" as well as posts tagged "#foo bar" (it searches for the terms within tags, not for exact matches).

@neiratina:

In Firefox, you can simply leave the spaces blank and the browser will add them for you.

@isolatedphenomenon:

Typing "/search/[tag1]+[tag2]" works as well!

figured out a way you can search for posts that are tagged TWO things on a blog!!! feeling clever

for anyone else who didn’t know, this is the format!:

https://[blogURL].tumblr.com/search/%23[tag1]%2C%20%23[tag2]

remove the [brackets] when using it!

[cherryflavoredbutch]

every time someone comments "huhuhu op doesn't know how to use commas" on my brown post my urge to engage them and be a complete dick about it doubles. it was an intentional stylistic choice on a tumblr post and that's about the nicest thing I can say about it

[accessibleaesthetics]

Hi there, I would love some advice for describing images please! Firstly, is there a preference for it to be in the body of the text or in the alt description? (This is for when I'm OP). Secondly, is there a preference for how quotes are given? I've not used a screen reader so don't know how they read punctuation marks, and quotation marks in particular (I guess this might vary too). I've used - The title reads: "Example article title". I can appreciate there won't be a way that's perfect for everyone, but I'd like to know what will make it more accessible for as many people as possible!

This is going to get a little long, so I'm going to put it under a read more. However, as usual, I invite people who use screen readers to share their experience in regards to both of these questions.

The preference varies a lot, to be honest. I personally prefer either having the full description in the alt text if it's short and sweet or an overview of the description in the alt text that ends with some form of "see image description in body of text for full details" if you can't describe everything necessarily in 200-300 characters or less. In those cases, you would then put the full ID as an image description in the post. This allows someone using a screen reader to get an idea of whats in the image and be able to decide if they want to hear more about it.

I tend to stray away from only using an image description since multiple screen reader users have told me that they will simply skip a post entirely if the images don't have alt text.

Of course, my preference isn't by any means the rule of thumb. This poll about length and placement of image descriptions gives some idea of the variety in preferences among Tumblr users. I think it is also worth noting that, as far as I know, some screen readers will not let you navigate alt text the same way you can text. It's very possible that some screen reader users will need to listen to alt text on a single image all at once, and then listen to it all again if they miss something. This makes long detailed alt text less than ideal for those users. Of course, that might not be as true with Tumblr since alt text added via the default editor is accessible as an image description as well, but it's still something to keep in mind.

There is also some evidence that Tumblr's alt text is not fully accessible to some users, though looking at the comments of the post, it seems like the majority of people answering that way actually mean that the presentation of alt text is less than ideal for them, such as the text being smaller than they'd like or the Alt Text button not being as obvious as they'd like. The expandable image description feature is not fully compatible with some older blog layouts either.

In terms of your second question, you're right that punctuation varies from screen reader to screen reader! I know that, at least with JAWS, quotation marks will be read as "left quote" or "right quote" if the verbosity settings are set to high, but otherwise they are not read. Using something like VoiceOver, quotation marks won't be read regardless (unless there is a way to navigate character-by-character like there is in JAWS and I just haven't discovered it yet, then it's possible that VoiceOver might be able to read it too). I'm not sure how NVDA handles it, but since JAWS tends to have the most user customization options of most screen readers, I think there's a good chance NVDA doesn't call them out either.

I'd say if the quotes are very important to the meaning, you might want to consider replacing them with text, such as saying: "this program is [quote] accessible [end quote], but what does that really mean?" You'll notice that I used quotation marks there too, and that's because I think it helps visually, even when it's not essential to the meaning. Adding a colon or comma before the quote can also force the screen reader to pause, making it more apparent to screen reader users where the quote functionally begins since that tends to be how we indicate it in natural speech.

Check out Why Don’t Screen Readers Always Read What’s on the Screen? Part 1: Punctuation and Typographic Symbols for more information one how screen readers deal with punctuation and other symbols.

[vergess]

It is AMAZING to me how much this idea is being ascribed to Random Internet Users, and not, like. The publishing companies.

Like? Have you (generic reader, not OP) ever spoken to a single fan of A Book on this website? There's a reason this post ends on a comma, and the reason is the autism website does not end book recommendations there.

But you know who does?

The same fucking publishers who stripped "Own Voices" to the bones and turned it into a fetish machine for reducing authors to marketable bullet points.

Like, I don't know a single Book Fan who would not be fucking delighted to answer Every Followup Question You Have.

But Publishers will pay for reviews like this so they can use them as marketting.

Be mad at the right people, okay.

This shit doesn't happen in "recommendations," it happens in marketing reviews. And blaming random fans or authors for that instead of the publishers who pay for the marketing is, like, a whole actual problem.

Hey, Tumblr. You like non-stereotypical depictions of autism? What about ✨ neurodivergent protagonists ✨ ? Yes? What about asexual neurodivergent protagonists that go on chapters-long rants about their special interests? You want gay characters that are important to the plot too? Then I've got the book for you! The author is gay!!! American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, is

[artcupcakes]

TIUR UWYSKDK YOUR FIC!! ART!!!!

DESTROYED BRUHHH

Yes I can already see a lot of improvement in this new fic you wro— YOU USED THE *fist slam PROPER NOUN THING!!!

You worked on your parsing a lil bit, I can see that! I don’t know if you meant it but the contrast between blue screens and “golden light” is metaphorical too?? YEAH I LOVE METAPHORS

“His” no I’m dead op I’m deaaaddd. I use “his” one single time in my fic, that is, when Dallas is being pulled away in that flashback sequence.

“A Mastermind controlling the Controller,” very potent. Hits hard. I like.

In-character internal dialogue: Bain sometimes uses the same word in a different way in a single sentence. Makes a bunch of jokes about gold, too.

OHHH READING BETWEEN THE LINES. Feelings of uselessness, self-depreciation, the works. “For treating him like something valuable,” mirrors stuff that they steal!

(Ch. 3 of my fic says ‘it made him feel important, like he mattered.’ What do they say about great minds, op??)

“RELEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING AND SURVIVING” 👏 STANDINNG OVATION FOR THIS LINE YEAH SAY IT LOUDER

Yooo Bain never thought they’d be meeting like this;; he wanted it to go down differently but he’s stuck with this insteAD

So I see a small grammar thingy here.

“It’s” = “it is” while “Its” = akin to “his” or “hers.” If it is a name you’re referring to, it’s “(Name)’s.”

Unless the name ends in the letter S, then just add an apostrophe to show possession/ownership. “Dallas’ medic bag.” (Pronounced ‘Dallas-is,’ kinda stupid)

The use of the one curse word (that I avoid typing) is,, VERY in-character. Bain says that one a bunch, also the one that starts with S. He says the F-bomb on two occasions only. How do I know? ..uhhhhh

MEDIC IS A GOOD NOUN. But also WAIT he learns into his touch? Oh and you use both “protect” and “tumultuous” two times, might want to try “keep” and “conflicting” as substitutes???

HE TELLS HIS NAVIGATOR. WAAAAAAAA

See the word “visions?” It should be “vision’s,” because “his vision is blurry.” No apostrophe suggests that he’s a seer and his visions are fuzzy. Maybe whitehouse should be White House? it’s a building like Taj Mahal, but proper nouns are capitalized? Idk actually I’m just speaking from memory here

HIS PARTNER!!! Mmmmm unlabeled is a juicy word hheeee

A SOFTER ALTERNATIVE!!! DUDE I— YOOOOOOOOO

“All the world's money and yet what Bain wants is forever out of reach,” CLAP CLAP CLAP money can’t buy you happiness, homie!! FAVORITE LINE best summary yeha.

Next line you switch to a ripple metaphor instead? It’s a little jarring and such because you already had something going! The pond?? You didn’t mention a pond yet,, not to say that the metaphors AREN’T good, just that they would be better separate!

I will give you my all, is that a reference to the song? YES there was this thing I wrote before, where Bain gets betrayed by his partner in my friend’s AU. Quote: “he gave him his all, but his all wasn’t enough.”

The tunneling mental vision;; THE FOCUS is like AAAhhhhh it hurts so much,, possessive promouns hhhehhhhuurrttsss but GOOD yeah ANGST

ONly thing that could make it better is that he doesn’t want to burden Dallas with a love confession cus he knows that he’s dying. Wouldn’t that be cruel?

HAHAHAHA *maniacal laughter* KEEP IT UP OP I love getting emotionally demolished

Oh boy this is a long one, so buckle in for the responses under the cut!

Hey I can learn from critiques >;3

Also yes "His" >:). Bain has always been a bit possessive of his crew, so why not bump that shit up.

Also so glad you the little in between the line stuff ^u^

I would say in my defense that I have ADHD and it causes my head to get think farther ahead from what I'm typing(I've spelt 'the' as 'teh' to give an example of this word scrambling) and also it was 3am.

But I edited this shit afterwards. Also that doesn't explain my misuse of comma's later. So I aint got no excuses. XD

But hey apparently I also just don't use hyphens as I should as pointed out by my friend and Beta, so I'm still learning stuff. An example of this was me realizing that I forget spacing a lot. Such as gun smoke being gunsmoke(like the tv show) or each other as eachother.

So I'm still getting the hang of writing with a lot more revision and editing. This is the "first" time I got critique on writing I cared about. (First being the feed backing I'm getting from both this fic and The Revenant Mastermind).

My mom(An English Teacher) tried her best; sadly I'm my daddy's daughter. But I try and that's all that matters lmao

Your avoidances of cursing, whether it be for professional reasons or do to personal taste, is admirable. Like damn that's a lot of self control.

Yeah proper nouns are capitalized, hence why I capitalized Roles, Skills, and other such things in reference to characters such as Medic, Controller, and Mastermind. I guess I just missed that one. Oh well at least it's just the White House and nothing important XD

Partner is vague word I love. Also it has yeehaw energy!

He's so close yet so far from what he want's, like a lot of things in his life. How could I not write that line about the money.

Oh god I never even thought about metaphor set ups, payoffs, and consistency. FUCK! ...Time to go back to one of my almost finished WIPs. Damn.

Listen, I Will Give You My All is technically a Bain song(Technically also a Cloaker song by that logic too but shhh). Also I Will Give You My All 2017 finally after forever dropped on Spotify so I got a little hyped.

The Good Angst PainTM

I kinda implied that he didn't want to confess his love do him dying, but I guess it didn't come across well. Big L on my end lmao.

Me and the boi's emotionally devastating each other with glee

But yeah! Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate it so much when people leave comments or kudos and stuff! Plus you're very nice and polite about your critiques. A rare combo indeed!

So I hope you have a love day ^u^

[ramshacklefey]

I promise I'm not a pedant, but OP left out a critical distinction. While all of these are synonyms for "said" (you'll find them in a thesaurus entry together), many of them are not usable as dialogue tags.

"A dialogue tag," he said, "is the bit that goes along with a bit of actual dialogue to tell you who is speaking."

"While there are a variety of them to choose from, it's usually ok to stick with the basics," she said. "Especially in a conversation with only two people. If the dialogue tags start feeling repetitive, you can even drop them altogether. People will be able to tell who's talking without them."

"They will?"

"Of course they will!"

"...I see what you mean."

"More to the point," she went on, "there are times when more... exotic dialogue tags are useful. For instance, if someone were to, I don't know ... spill hot coffee on the person they're talking to--"

"My best shirt!" he wailed. "That's gonna stain!" He grabbed a towel and blotted at the coffee soaking into his white button down.

"But things like that work best when they're kept to a minimum," she said. "That way they'll stand out when you do use them. How's your shirt?"

"Ruined, thanks. Now can we actually get back on topic and explain why a bunch of those words aren't dialogue tags?"

"Of course. It's quite simple really. Try one out for yourself and you'll see."

"Okay.... Just because something is a synonym for 'said,' doesn't mean it works as a dialogue tag," he vocalized.

"It's quite awkward," she uttered.

"Even the ones that aren't totally off seem a bit clunky," he stated. "Why is that? Obviously I do state things."

"True, and those words can come in useful, just not as dialogue tags." She proceeded to ramble for several minutes about the history of language conventions in English. When she finally finished, he expressed his fervent gratitude for her conciseness.

"It's great that I learned everything I needed to know about that part of the conversation without needing to listen to your whole monologue," he said.

"Exactly. Often the specific words that someone is using aren't as important as the way they're speaking. If a character is going to give a full monologue, it had better be worth reading."

"I bet that's also true when using something as a dialogue tag would be completely redundant," he said, peering at the list. "For instance, if you were going to apologize for ruining my shirt..."

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry about that," she apologized.

"...it would sound really bad to use 'apologized' as a dialogue tag."

"You're right," she agreed. "That sounds absolutely dreadful. Those words also work much better as part of the narration."

"I do have one question though," he said. "What if I'm doing something while talking?"

"That's more a point of grammar." She grimaced.

"What do you mean?" He looked up from the list with raised eyebrows.

"People sometimes use a facial expression as a dialogue tag, because it seems like a convenient way to convey the face someone is making while they talk," she said. "The problem is that facial expressions aren't dialogue tags."

"Alright, but following every dialogue tag with a description of someone's facial expression is pretty awkward," he smirked.

"There, you just did it. But I dare you to actually try 'smirking' a sentence out loud."

He tried several times, but it just didn't work.

"So what should I do then?" he asked, frowning.

"Not that, if you can help it." She winced. "At least not too often. This is one of the places where not having a dialogue tag is useful."

"Oh, I get it!" He grinned. "A line of dialogue is an action!"

She nodded. "And you can separate actions by making them separate sentences."

"It's a small difference. A comma means the sentence is still going, so whatever comes after it is a dialogue tag," he said.

"But if you end a line of speech with a period, the next thing is a separate action." She clapped her hands.

He burst out laughing, a great, guffawing laugh like drunken dwarf.

"What on earth is so funny?" she said. "Is there something on my face?"

He was laughing too hard to reply, clutching his sides and wheezing. Finally he collected himself enough to explain, between more peals of laughter, how much time he'd spent agonizing about dialog tags in the past. "I only just realized," he said, "how silly most of my characters must sound." He wiped a tear of laughter from his eye, took a deep breath, and collapsed into giggles again.

"Yes well. We all have some things we'd rather not look at hidden in our drafts folders," she said, patting him on the shoulder.

"You don't understand," he gasped, "these are published!"

The corners of her mouth twitched. "Online?"

"In print!"

50 WORDS TO USE INSTEAD OF “SAID”

Do you ever find yourself over-using the word “said” in your writing? Try using these words/phrases instead:

stated

commented

declared

spoke

responded

voiced

noted

uttered

iterated

explained

remarked

acknowledged

mentioned

announced

shouted

expressed

articulated

exclaimed

proclaimed

whispered

babbled

observed

deadpanned

joked

hinted

informed

coaxed

offered

cried

affirmed

vocalized

laughed

ordered

suggested

admitted

verbalized

indicated

confirmed

apologized

muttered

proposed

chatted

lied

rambled

talked

pointed out

blurted out

chimed in

brought up

wondered aloud

(NOTE: Keep in mind that all of these words have slightly different meanings and are associated with different emotions/scenarios.)

[lime-sar]

YES YES YES YES I do this ALL THE TIME it's GREAT!!!

One of my favorites is intentionally making run-on sentences, with some commas mixed in, and occasionally using "loaded" words to rush the reader and create a more panicked or rambling sort of paragraph. It feels like your thoughts are racing with all sorts of possibilities, much like someone experiencing fear would do, and you're holding your breath waiting for the inevitable until—

Well? Did you feel it?

This sort of thing really supplements my preferred form of perspective, that being anything of the limited sort. Having an omniscient narrator that reveals what both sides are thinking kinda removes the inherent drama from that - at least for the reader. Neither side knows with 100% certainty what the other is thinking, which leads to miscommunications, which leads to drama— You get what I mean?

And because you're limited to one perspective, you get all the more time to experience what that character's thinking. If that character gets emotional, you get a front-row seat to how their view of the world around them changes. They forget the "unnecessary" details. They link things towards what's making them feel so emotional. When something comes up they're more willing to push it aside. Because people can get very tunnel-visioned while wrapped up in strong emotions.

Another thing about limited perspectives is that your characters are biased. They will think and say things that the reader doesn't agree with. They can choose to ignore what another character is saying, and the reader will be left out of that conversation in the process. They'll focus on things that the reader doesn't find interesting in the slightest...

...This turned into a post about my bias towards limited perspectives. Sorry OP. This instance of self-demonstrating topics wasn't intentional I swear—

(but one thing i found weird about this post was how the pause length of periods, commas, and dashes differ. why do periods have the shortest length when they're a full stop? they should be the longest, shouldn't they?)

(i feel like the order of shortest to longest pause length is commas -> dashes -> periods. however, commas can sometimes feel longer than usual, like starting a sentence with "so,". this is pretty subjective anyway, people read at different paces)

my writing fundamentally changed forever ten years ago when i realized you could use sentence structure to control people’s heart rates. is this still forbidden knowledge or does everyone know it now

[psychological-musings]

I also understand not wanting to "clog your friends' dashes" past a certain point though—like when I first hyperfixated on a certain game last year, I reblogged 300+ posts in the span of like 5 hours, and that felt like just a bit too much for me (everyone's limits are different though, so post however much is comfortable for you!). So I created a sideblog for that specific interest and just linked to that blog from my main.

A lot of people just put a mix of all their interests on their main though—I only have 4 sideblogs (this is one of them!) for interests that I anticipate a lot of consistent activity in! Every single other interest I have goes to my main, sometimes tagged, sometimes not.

Interest-specific sideblogs are also nice because you can scroll back through and find all the stuff you liked from that interest all at once! Even better if you have some variation of a "fave" tag on each blog—tumblr users are absolutely delighted when you "fave" their posts, in my experience, so that's an extra bonus! But I find it very fun to just scroll through my own blogs from time to time and see what I've collected!

Ultimately though, you'll find a group of friends on Tumblr by just posting like yourself. There's no single "right" way to use Tumblr, so long as you understand how certain functions work and how they're typically used (for example, reblogs, the queue, tags, the magic comma (‚) that can be copy pasted into tags, quick reblogs, mentions, how to create a sideblog, etc.).

As for likes, I like to picture them like a "thumbs up" reaction emoji on Discord. Doesn't do that much, but lets the person whose post you're looking at as well as the OP ("original poster") know that you saw their post. Like a little wave or generally positive greeting, but not really interactive as far as Tumblr goes.

Reblogs on the other hand, even silent ones, are often seen like "saving for later" or bookmarking, or like trying to show something to your friends. Like taking a screenshot and saving it to a specific folder. Usually a sign that you like something a lot— many people even reblog the same post many times in a row to show they really liked it! (Common is 3-8 sequential reblogs, but some people do even more. You can think of it like dragging like 8 of an item in a grocery store into your cart; shows that you REALLY like it a lot.)

Also, there's no shame in not knowing all of Tumblr's features, or finding several of them out way down the road. I only learned how to queue things a few months ago and I've been here for years.

seeing a lot of "why would i reblog anything i don't have something to add" like

sir this is the user-circulated content site

[mimisempai]

I'm glad I'm only seeing this post now, because if I had seen it before I started writing, I don't think I would have ever published anything.

I would meet requirements outside of myself regarding my writing if I ever decided to make it a profession, which I never will because it's a hobby, a passion, something I do where I don't have to answer to anyone but myself.

Despite that, every time I press send or save, I always wonder if the readers will like it. It's inherent, we write for ourselves and for others.

1. I proofread myself, for corrections and formatting, but I don't like to proofread much, because I feel like I lose the spontaneity with which I wrote, because I am someone who writes without planning. This is my way of working, everyone has a different way.I warn people that I'm not beta'ed and that it's not my native language every time though and so far no one has told me it's a turn off.

2. Sometimes the story doesn't turn out the way I had it in my head, so I warn the readers, saying that I'm not completely satisfied and often I'm surprised that it's the most appreciated stories... another different opinion OP

3. Abour paragraph break, I would tend to agree. Though everyone has their own style, sometimes depending on the author's style, if it's fluid, not having a paragraph break doesn't bother me. Read some Victor Hugo and we'll talk about it...

4. Many writers do not adhere to the guidelines regarding the use of commas and colons with quotations. Nowadays, it is acceptable to introduce a quotation with a comma, a colon, or nothing. In modern writing, the choice of punctuation depends largely on the desired flow of the text (i.e., how much the writer wants the reader to pause).

5. "put effort into writing your pieces. " 

Excuse me for saying this, but it's so condescending, how can you judge the effort someone puts into creating something when you know nothing about said person. Have you ever thought that a person who, in your opinion, has not put any effort into what they doe, have perhaps put everything they have, all his abilities...

Never forget that behind every paragraph you read, every word, there is a person who has given of themselves to produce what you have in front of you.

psa for fic writers

here’s a few things to remember when publishing ur work:

never……never ever ever post ur fic without editing it. DOUBLE NEVER tell ur readers in the author’s note that ur fic isn’t edited, bc honestly that’s just a massive turn-off

never say in the author’s note something along these lines: “this is actually so bad”, “the ending is shit but w/e”, “this is trash”. i can guarantee that i won’t be reading that fic. if you yourself, as the writer, claim that it’s a bad piece, why would you post it? and how can you expect for readers to want to read it? you’re basically telling us everything we need to know before we reach the first sentence

PARAGRAPH BREAKS ARE NECESSARY!!! if ur fic has back-to-back dialogue and no paragraph breaks in between…….big oof

pls…..for the love of god……..use proper grammar. if you’re unsure as to whether or not you’re supposed to put a comma before closing quotations, here i am telling you that you have to. you really do

put effort into writing your pieces. i hate to say it, but it’s so obvious when someone is writing for notes and followers, and it’s very easy to tell them apart from someone who actually enjoys the craft 

[ersahtz]

I'm going to attempt an explanation that may or may not be right, take it with several pinches of salt.

I was scrolling through the post as befuddled as OP but when it came to the author something clicked in my head because he looked Indian and his name is a very common Indian one.

Now yes, my thesis is that these mistakes are because Indians are not native English speakers, for a variety of reasons:

1. The way composition/writing is taught in some schools, especially not so good schools, really really emphasizes repetition. For some reason, teachers encourage it in essays, and still others encourage it unconsciously because the way English or any other language is taught to children in India emphasizes quantity over quality - unlike the sciences, geography etc. answers have to be of a certain length or else the student doesn't get points. This length is usually a requirement of a number of pages filled, or a minimum word count.

2. The specific type of punctuation errors: I don't know so many Indians do the space after punctuation or the space before the comma, but it is a very Indian thing. I used to do it too (or at least didn't pay any attention to where they went and their spacing) before I started using ms word and it would red-underline whenever the spacing was wrong. So Indians who use technology without ever using word or similar software end up making this mistake (that's my thesis within a thesis) - I've seen it especially on messaging apps.

3. Only using Wikipedia for a source is also a very common thing to do for school projects, is an accepted reference until at least the tenth grade. My first frame of reference used to be Wikipedia too, but law school beat that shit out of me.

So in conclusion, I think the author is at most in his late twenties, most likely doesn't live in an urban or suburban environment, was a diligent student but had limited schooling, has probably talked about animals too much to the people around him who have shown him how to use the internet leading to this website.

Someone who knows about linguistics and artificial intelligence needs to write something on the subject of distinguishing between

text written by an AI

text written by someone who doesn't know the language very well

text edited or plagiarized by someone who doesn't know the language very well

text edited and/or compiled by an automated process of some sort

because I keep ending up in the small weird corners of the internet and finding posts and websites that are off but I can't articulate more specifically what's off about them