sloptells / “showing up”

active · lexical · first recorded 2026-07-02 · registers: linkedin

“It's early mornings, long drives, and showing up — again and again.” Consistency-as-virtue vocabulary; 15× the human-baseline rate.

Also lives in good human writing (weighted down accordingly).

◑ appears in good human writing too (collateral score 0.32 — the closer to 1, the more it also fires on acclaimed pre-AI prose)

examples

…long drives, and showing up — again and again — for customers who became like family…

evidence

occurrences per 10k words, measured 2026-07 (run #2: 3 current + 3 vintage models, 3 matched registers, 1,392 samples)

current AIvintage AI (2024/25)humans (matched)canon (great pre-AI prose)
pooled0.980.310.220.31
hn1.100.48
cooking0.000.00
parenting0.000.00
linkedin8.69

detector

regex: \bshow(ing|ed)? up\b

sources

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