Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use
It’s not about which words get used, from this or that set. It’s about how the words felt when the author was choosing them, and how that’s reflected in how the reader feels reading them. And how when the AI chooses words, there’s nobody feeling them as they go down.