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 0.27 — 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 2026-09-28 (run #15, 3 current + 3 vintage models)

current AIvintage AI (2024/25)humans (matched)canon (great pre-AI prose)
pooled1.160.370.370.31
hn1.21—0.51
cooking0.31—0.00
parenting0.32—0.40
linkedin8.17——

history

rundateAI /10kvs humans
#22026-07-020.98×4.4 vs humans
#32026-07-020.88×3.7 vs humans
#42026-07-061.23×3.5 vs humans
#52026-07-130.69×2.7 vs humans
#62026-07-200.54×1.0 vs humans
#72026-07-272.02×17 vs humans
#82026-08-031.47×3.9 vs humans
#92026-08-101.53×12 vs humans
#102026-08-171.40×6.2 vs humans
#112026-08-310.85×3.5 vs humans
#122026-09-071.19×2.4 vs humans
#132026-09-141.40only in AI
#142026-09-211.33×2.3 vs humans
#152026-09-281.16×3.2 vs humans

detector

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

sources

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