Poor grammar is a sign of being human | Brief letters

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The AI backlash is here (

Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication, 11 December

). Yesterday, I wrote some notes on Microsoft WordPad and felt a sense of freedom as even my poor spelling wasn’t corrected. My WhatsApp messages are becoming pithy two-fingered salutes to the endless suggestions for improvement. Poor grammar is now a welcome sign of a brain and beating heart. I are human. I speak proper.

Edward Bick


Hereford

• Re Joel Snape’s piece (

Worried about what to buy the man in your life for Christmas? The perfect gift may be more modest than you think, 11 December

), last Christmas my wife gave me a ball of rubber bands and this year I’m buying them for all my friends. No more bulky clothes pegs to seal those opened food packets.

Melvyn Rust


St Albans

• Kemi Badenoch has said the idea of a flat tax is “

very attractive

”. She may be too young to remember the Tories’ last foray into that territory. It was called the poll tax and it worked out really well for them and everyone else, didn’t it?

Valerie Bayliss


Sheffield

• Now that the deal is done (

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský approved, 16 December

), can we at last say “the Czech is in the post”?

Joanna Rimmer


Newcastle upon Tyne

• Sellar and Yeatman (

Letters, 11 December

) were decades ahead of Francis Fukuyama in declaring that

history had come to a full stop

(and just as wrong, but infinitely funnier).

Cassy Firth


Morley, West Yorkshire

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