not sure why this got so much traction over half a year later but it’s interesting that these are the sorts of ppl who clutch their pearls when average consumer says fuck it lemme try a $20/month AI sub
saw a tweet where someone mentioned that they didn’t like Casablanca because of how many romance genre tropes it contained
going thru diaries from when i was struggling with my Christian faith. It seems even from a very young age, I was confused that Jesus's sacrifice was supposed to be such a big deal. I find multiple entries across the years with variations on "Obviously any of us would do that for someone we loved, it kinda seems like Jesus just hitting the bare minimum"
also random but gonna start keeping a log here on my attempts at building a coherent grammar out of aave and Shakespearean English for a piece
the cool thing about the rise of voice AI is that eventually the way AI chooses to use language will be the majority of conversation online so at what point do people start to become “trained” to speak in an optimal way for the parrot?
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lowkey agree but please don't do translation a disservice like this. a translation is a transformation and that doesn't inherently mean destruction. once again: i truly understand and share the sentiment, but translation is its own beautiful art.
this is why Toni Morrison and Richard Wright are the great American novelists
aave has like three solutions for this very specific thing and all three of them rely on a specific tonal inflection to signify the question form (fr?) and not the agreement form (fr)
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i don't believe "mathematics is the language of the universe". the universe does what it does, it doesn't need a "language". math is a human attempt to describe the universe, and as such, it is an abstraction, an approximation, and at least one step removed from reality.
