Gotta say, this is “headline of the year” contender material
Only if it weren’t for the sloppy verb tense disagreement. It should read:
After its reputation goes up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may, too
5th graders learn how to conjugate irregular verbs. Engadget editors should know better.
Can you help me understand why? Both seem right to me, and GPT is insistent that the original is right
“Goes” and “may” are both present participle, whereas “went” is simple past participle. To match “went”, one would have to use the word “might” (simple past participle of “may”). The choice of the word “might”, however, is inappropriate in this context because the headline is referring to something that would happen in the future (and is less than certain to), and the word “might” typically refers to things that could have happened in the past. “May” refers to things that are likely to happen in the present or future, making it the appropriate word choice.
Edit: the verb tenses should match because the first clause is a dependent clause which depends on the second clause which defines the subject “Humane”. If the first clause had been an independent clause, then it would be OK for the verb tenses not to match. Bad style, but not grammatically incorrect.
Thank you so much! That makes sense, and since you explained why, I can look up participles myself :)
I had never heard of Humane until I read this article. After also reading Engadget’s review of the thing, it sounds like an absolute nightmare to use.
Maybe I’m too old-school and impatient, but I’ve never been able to make voice assistants work for me. It’s a feedback loop: the assistant fails to do a task, so I become resistant to using it in the future. Even the thing I’ve used an assistant for the most, playing music out of a Nest speaker, seems to still be hit-or-miss after years of trying, and in some ways seems to be getting worse.
The gestures also sound awful. As with voice assistants, I’ve never gotten comfortable with smartphone gestures beyond the most rudimentary. I strictly use 3-button navigation on my phone, and I use Connect as my Lemmy app of choice because it allows me to disable all the swipe commands for upvote/downvote.
I stopped all voice assistants when they started getting snippy with me for being rude to them. I don’t need a poorly design if statement snapping back at me for showing my frustration at its inability to do a basic task.
I remember being downvoted heavily on Reddit when I called this stupid mostly down to how limited it is and the silly subscription.
Kinda hoping now all those downvoters purchased one because they deserve it.
