Kids these days with llms will never know the struggle of filling a word / page count .

Filler language will be a lost art, that hereto for, will not be practiced by our posterity in the coming generations of chatgpt indoctrinated youths. I do indeed struggle to weep for its demise though.

You should not use contractions in essays anyway

When/where I was in school, that wouldn’t have counted. They counted only words >= 3 letters and excluded ‘the’.

I’m not so sure people writing essays know that’s a thing unless AI tells them so.