Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee
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#2In case anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary
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#4>The syllabary was widely lauded, as its phonetic accuracy and simplicity made it far easier to grasp than English.
I mean, that feels like it's bound to happen when an alphabet is built to represent current language or pronunciation. English is notoriously awful for not doing that.
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What were the signs this is AI slop?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were the signs this is AI slop?
The em dash gave it away
Here's an article in the Smithsonian magazine from 1995 with an em-dash:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/review-of-the-pr...
Where do you think LLM's learned these things from? They are widely used in literary writing. Like magazines and books.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were the signs this is AI slop?
The em dash gave it away
If you read a lot of books, particularly older ones, you'll find em dashes in all kinds of writing and used often. It's functional punctuation that once you understand you may even find yourself using it (and then being accused of being an AI, lol)