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The Paul Graham vs Nigerian Twitter Saga; Lexical racism and language bias masked as ChatGPT hysteria(medium.com)

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Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world
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🇬🇧 English (Traditional)

🇺🇸 English (Simplified)

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YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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And evidently:

🇳🇬 English (Magnified and Embellished)

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skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems
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Gah! That’s the word I was looking for!

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gerikson@awful.systems
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This was entertaining as heck.

FWIW I’m pretty colloquial in my English, but I do enjoy employing slightly unusual Swedish words. The writer Peter Englund (not especially ancient) is good at unearthing archaic words.

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HotGarbage@awful.systems
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TIL Paul Graham has never read a book.

These are the same people who want to remove the humanities from education.

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V0ldek@awful.systems
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I’m sure he read “How to Maximize* Achieving and Synergy of Disruption” or something like that

  • using the wrong spelling of maximise derogatorily
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funbreaker@kbin.run
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Well fuck, guess I’m just a chatbot given flesh according to this guy.

Anyone else feeling the urge to learn Naija Pidgin?

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David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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like I suddenly learnt where a pile of local east London speech patterns come from

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froztbyte@awful.systems
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my armchair linguist ass loves this post

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