oh, I forgot -
prescriptivist - grammar nazi
descriptivist - one who describes language as it is, not as "they" feel it should be
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- Yesterday, 5:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55
- Yesterday, 5:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55
Re: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
Oh man, I hear you about the fear of cognitive decline - I find that if someone asks me out of the blue for a name, a word, a date, anything requiring recall, I'm apt to stammer & lock up. Just yesterday I was writing something and thought the word "disabuse" would be the perfect choice - but I just...
- Yesterday, 3:29 pm
- Forum: Photography
- Topic: Newborn
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22
Re: Newborn
and it's been a long time coming
- Yesterday, 2:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55
Re: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
I see what you're getting at - but isn't "everyone" considered grammatically singular, even though it refers to a group? We don't say "Everyone are havng a good time" (I don't, anyway). And the word "group" itself is singular, even though it refers to a plurality of indifiduals. You're right - it's ...
- Yesterday, 6:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55
Re: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
I'm not ready to say that the bots are actually "thinking" - I did enough programming back in the day to see how enough "if... then else..." clauses might create the appearance of an intelligent reaction to very specific stimuli. For example, I maintain a log of my photographs, with a brief descript...
- May 5th, 2024, 8:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
- Replies: 8
- Views: 55
Re: Bizarre— conversation with an AI bot
"Brave New World" indeed. Would have been interesting to see its response to the phrase "uncanny valley"... I'm taking care of my ex's dog while she undergoes chemo & its aftermath, and maintaining a kind of diary so she can keep abreast of our activities and be assured that her dog is doing well. H...
Re: dream on
saw, wd, thanks been dreaming about work a lot, or at least that's what it feels like when I awaken. I can't remember details, just the Vibe - familiar faces, feelings, even the office layout (with some creative additions)... and it's always my penultimate job, not the last one. Which doesn't surpri...
- May 1st, 2024, 10:31 am
- Forum: Paintings & Drawings
- Topic: Cancer Warrior....Version Three
- Replies: 4
- Views: 472
Re: Cancer Warrior....Version Three
visited my ex this sunday our daughter flies home soon and besides she & her hubby miss their dog so off we went (dog and I) an hour's drive to suburbia where people pee indoors and share backyards... cancer (and hair) gone (for now?) but so is her her immune system to be grown anew from a stranger'...
- April 28th, 2024, 9:41 am
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: one dirty dish
- Replies: 5
- Views: 100
Re: one dirty dish
dish washing
still done by hand
in this house
dead machine
been used for storage
since 1990
coulda fixed it -
but 4-track reel tape deck
won the coin toss
still done by hand
in this house
dead machine
been used for storage
since 1990
coulda fixed it -
but 4-track reel tape deck
won the coin toss
- April 27th, 2024, 10:40 am
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: one dirty dish
- Replies: 5
- Views: 100
Re: one dirty dish
dishes washed
except for one fork
that escaped
except for one fork
that escaped
- April 26th, 2024, 9:16 pm
- Forum: ~GO!
- Topic: I do 2 lines and then you do two 2022 soul searching GO!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6333
Re: I do 2 lines and then you do two 2022 soul searching GO!
two wrongs don't make a right -
but three rights make a left
but three rights make a left
dream on
haunted by dreams those ethereal nighttime visions surreal tales the mundane in drag gibberished messages like the white knight talking backwards long ago visions of unknown import whose memories persist long after the war was fought... the severe white church on a hilltop the steep ocean beach at n...
- April 24th, 2024, 10:24 am
- Forum: Haiku
- Topic: end of spring rain
- Replies: 4
- Views: 222
Re: end of spring rain
sunlight returns
the twig's beads of water
have become buds
the twig's beads of water
have become buds
- April 20th, 2024, 1:01 pm
- Forum: ~GO!
- Topic: perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 5761
- Views: 607816
Re: perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!
pick up your fiddle or your kazoo or tambourine and make up some music doesn't matter what as long as it sings join the jam the dance of words begun by wireman (the one you knew as mark colburn) whatever comes to mind whatever moves your soul whatever the moment feels like just jam yeah baby that's ...