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The "AI vocabulary" cluster

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Plain English: Words and connectives that spike in LLM output: delve, intricate, underscore, tapestry, testament, showcase, vibrant, robust, meticulous, pivotal, crucial, landscape, realm, foster, garner, navigate (figurative), interplay, nuanced, multifaceted, underscore, boasts, nestled, plus connective tics moreover, furthermore, additionally, notably, importantly.

Fix: Not a banned-word list to mechanically purge (that's cargo-cult — see memory), but a flag: a cluster of these in a passage usually means the prose has drifted to generic register. Rewrite the passage for specificity and a situated voice; the words fall away on their own.

See: Guardrail register thesis (memory — framing alone doesn't evade; grounding does) · storygraph/prose_tics.py · ./run.sh tics

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