#German #morphology

@linguisticsmemes @linguistics

LO is definitely still mastering “just”

Me: do you want three blankets or just one?
LO: I want just three

#linguistics

Playing hangman with my 10yo last night, my word was “strictly”. She guessed A, E, I, O, U and was puzzled that only one of those was in the word. I said, “What’s sometimes like a vowel and sometimes not?” She guessed R! #proud

#linguistics #variation #sociolinguistics #English #UKEnglish #rhoticity #Edinburgh #linguistbabyphotos

LLM query:

I've found that chatGPT can parody some styles well (e.g. Lovecraftian horror, Dr Seuss) but others it has got nothing (e.g. Hunter S Thompson, Brecht, Riddley Walker). Why is this?

My suspicion is that it is NOT due to the amount of original text, but due to the amount of fanfiction, which is essentially human-augmented enlargement of the original training data

Reckons?

#chatGPT #LLMs #AI