Perfect grammar is a bot tell

Perfect grammar is a bot tell

Everyone says polish your message — flawless copy signals professionalism.

Myth. Inboxes have inverted on this. Pristine, perfectly punctuated cold messages now read as automated, because real busy humans fire off DMs with a lowercase start and a typo. Polish reads as a sequence, not a person.

It's not that sloppiness wins — it's that manufactured perfection loses. A message that looks tapped out between meetings beats one that looks staged by a tool. The goal isn't impressive, it's clearly human-sent.