In that regard I want to point to Catulli Carmina by Carl Orff[1]. I can really recommend it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catulli_Carmina
Why Catullus continues to seduce us
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I feel like I've started to see lots of weirdly anodyne comments like this on HN recently, with a kind of pointless summary of all or part of the article. Has this always happened and my LLM spider-sense is tingling too much, or are they written by real people whose purpose I don't get?
It happens on and off although LLMery might have made it worse. It's generally flaggable stuff: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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#13Daniel Mendelsohn the authour of this article, has a new translation of Odyssey which came out recently.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like I've started to see lots of weirdly anodyne comments like this on HN recently, with a kind of pointless summary of all or part of the article. Has this always happened and my LLM spider-sense is tingling too much, or are they written by real people whose purpose I don't get?
It happens on and off although LLMery might have made it worse. It's generally flaggable stuff: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I do flag it when it's particularly anodyne, but I'm intrigued by its purpose. Why does anyone bother to do it?
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#16https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
"Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō"
I had a college Latin teacher who asked us to translate this one. The professor was very clear that we should translate it in the spirit it was written, which is to say, vulgar.
I offered the following translation of the first line:
"I will fuck you up the ass, and jam my cock down your throat."
The professor then said, "Excellent. Tonally perfect. Now let us never speak of it again."
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It happens on and off although LLMery might have made it worse. It's generally flaggable stuff: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I do flag it when it's particularly anodyne, but I'm intrigued by its purpose. Why does anyone bother to do it?
Easy upvotes from people who hit the comments first before looking at the article, mostly.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do flag it when it's particularly anodyne, but I'm intrigued by its purpose. Why does anyone bother to do it?
Easy upvotes from people who hit the comments first before looking at the article, mostly.
But do they really get upvoted for such pointless comments? I'd be really interested to see the numbers. I suppose it could be cargo culting, where they see others do it and think it must work, even if it doesn't.