I also don't want books translated by big autocorrect. AI translation software is only as good as all the human translations already fed into it; but translation is about encountering new texts, with new and distinctive peculiarities, and deploying our linguistic knowledge in new ways

私've 決ed to 始t 書iting 私y 英語 with some 漢字 in it, just to 見ee 何 起ens. The 振ri仮名 will be a bit 恣意的 at 一st, but that's 大丈夫. Nothing 始ts 完璧. 個人的ly, I 思ink it's not too 悪, I 出来n 読ead 何 私've 書itten here without much 難ty, but some 人 might not 好e it.

I think the implications of this data laid out by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.socialwww.ft.com/content/1760...

Young women are starting to leave men behind

Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions

With today's anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, I feel like again reflecting on how English gives you an excellent base for learning not just one but two families of languages (Germanic + Romance), which makes it all more of a shame how few native English-speakers bother to learn other languages

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Little Mari enjoying Apple Day with her ghost friend (who is either helping or stealing an Apple…)

Bless you @alicefraser.bsky.social for this quote - I shall be quoting you the next time I have to explain why AI is the wrong term… “I don’t really like calling them AI, because for me until we get to Rutger Hauer sitting wetly on a roof clutching a confused pigeon, it’s not AI in my heart”

After so many centuries why have we still not managed to rename September, October, November and December as November, December, Undecember and Duodecember