Your text looks fine to me. There are a few nits I could pick if I was a stern TOEFL examiner and only give it a 95%, but really nothing worth commenting on here. Same goes for this. I’d say these are completely acceptable.
See, this is exactly why the bar for me to express myself is so high. It’s like, thousands of TOEFL examiners reading my words, silently grading me in their heads. The tension is real,and if I make a grammar mistake or say something that gets misinterpreted or pushed back on—not because my idea was bad, but because the English didn’t land right, it feels even worse than losing points on an actual exam essay.
I’m not just speaking for myself here. Yes, the process is exhausting for me—writing a draft, running it through an LLM for grammar and clarity check out, then going back and deliberately editing out anything that sounds “too smooth” or “too LLM-like,” sometimes even reintroducing my own non-native quirks just to avoid being flagged( which is so weird). But I’m planning to study in an English-speaking country and pursue a PhD, so I can treat this as language training anyway. What worries me more is that there are other non-native users here who are definitely smarter and more thoughtful than me, their valuable insights are being filtered out simply because of language. If that’s what LLMs have brought us, then what exactly have we gained from the development of LLM here ?
Your text looks fine to me. There are a few nits I could pick if I was a stern TOEFL examiner and only give it a 95%, but really nothing worth commenting on here. Same goes for this. I’d say these are completely acceptable.
See, this is exactly why the bar for me to express myself is so high. It’s like, thousands of TOEFL examiners reading my words, silently grading me in their heads. The tension is real,and if I make a grammar mistake or say something that gets misinterpreted or pushed back on—not because my idea was bad, but because the English didn’t land right, it feels even worse than losing points on an actual exam essay.
I’m not just speaking for myself here.
Yes, the process is exhausting for me—writing a draft, running it through an LLM for grammar and clarity check out, then going back and deliberately editing out anything that sounds “too smooth” or “too LLM-like,” sometimes even reintroducing my own non-native quirks just to avoid being flagged( which is so weird). But I’m planning to study in an English-speaking country and pursue a PhD, so I can treat this as language training anyway.
What worries me more is that there are other non-native users here who are definitely smarter and more thoughtful than me, their valuable insights are being filtered out simply because of language.
If that’s what LLMs have brought us, then what exactly have we gained from the development of LLM here ?