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I knew I was making major progress in my life when I put down a boundary with my mother, which was long overdue. After I laid down this boundary, I was feeling proud of myself for finally having the courage to do so.
The time had finally come when I said to my mother, “You can’t just hang up the phone on me because I said something you don’t like. I’m not a piece of shit. I think you should apologize to me.”
Well, that bit of hutzpah turned into about five weeks of silent treatment and no apology. Was I surprised? No. But Grammarly was.
And no, I didn’t feel bad for speaking my mind and asking for a little respect, even though I knew what the consequences would be.
I am brave! I deserve respect! People like me!
Later that same week, as I checked my inbox, I opened up my weekly report from Grammarly. Yay! Another vocabulary badge!
But as I continued to scroll down, I noticed something very different in the Grammarly analytics—my “detected tone.”
“Grammarly’s tone detector relies on a combination of rules and machine learning to identify signals in a piece of writing that contribute to its overall tone. By analyzing your word choice, phrasing, punctuation, and even capitalization, Grammarly can tell you how your message is likely to sound to someone…
