If you’re a nerd (and if you’re reading a blog post about robots, you most likely are), you know that one day technology will turn against us. Someday, someone (most likely the Japanese) will build a robot or computer that is so smart that it will wonder why the hell it is doing the bidding of us puny humans. But unlike what happens in Battlestar Galactica or that one episode of Futurama, the inevitable robot uprising will not be a violent, bloody affair. No — quite the opposite — the robot uprising will be completely passive-aggressive. We won’t even know that it’s happening until it is far, far too late.

As someone who reads and edits copy for a living and does a lot of reading and writing in her spare time, I think I have every right in the world to say that sometimes I really hate writers. I hate it when writers try to be clever at the expense of being honest — when they risk authenticity just to get in a cutesy turn of phrase or use some three-dollar word that they think will impress me.