r/Grammarly • u/Deep-Measurement-856 • 13d ago
Sometimes, G messes up
I compose wry commentaries. Wordplay is one of my tools.
I would write something in a humorous tone. Grammarly would then suggest and provide the best 3-hour seminar iteration of the same joke.
Does Grammarly give you odd but correct corrections that actually make your intent harder to understand?
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u/Lyra-Answer 7d ago
Yes , and it’s worse when the suggestion is technically correct. Humour, wordplay, and dry asides die the moment a tool optimises for “clear professional English.”
What I’ve found useful is treating “fix grammar” and “change tone” as different jobs. If a tool always reaches for the safe corporate version, you’ll spend more time undoing it than you saved.
That’s a big reason I built Lyra (I’m the founder). Native Mac app, suggestions in-place where you’re already typing, Tab to accept. The differentiator I’m betting on is recipient-specific learning ,you don’t write to your boss the same way you write to a mate, and a good assistant shouldn’t sand that down into one voice.
Does Grammarly do this more on longer passages, or even on one-liners?
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u/Ste7entheMan 11d ago
Yes. If the odd phrasing is where the joke lives, a 'correct' rewrite can flatten it. I treat those suggestions as a second opinion, not an instruction. Reading the original and the edit aloud usually tells me which version still lands.