Human Writing — house style

Read this before writing any prose for Noe and check the draft against it before you hand it over. It removes the patterns that flag writing as AI-generated. It does not replace the voice guides — layer it on top of reference/voice-guide.md, Marketing/reference/brand-voice.md, caption-voice.md, and scripting-voice.md.

Source: Wikipedia: Signs of AI writing.

License note: this file adapts material from that Wikipedia article and is therefore licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, not MIT like the rest of this repo. If you redistribute or adapt it, keep it under CC BY-SA 4.0 and credit the source.

The one test

Read the draft out loud. If a real person texting a friend or writing a work email would not say it that way, rewrite it.

Banned words

Do not use these unless the topic literally requires the word: delve, intricate, pivotal, underscore, tapestry, testament, crucial, enhance, foster, showcase, boasts, vibrant, rich, profound, nestled, groundbreaking, renowned, robust, seamless, realm, landscape, "diverse array", "treasure trove", "game-changer", "power of", "unlock", "elevate", "navigate the", "in today's world", "when it comes to", "at the end of the day".