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Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Interesting. I've gotten really good mileage with Georgian and ChatGPT, which I'm aware is apples and oranges. There should be a larger Armenian corpus out there. Do any other languages cause this issue? Translation is a real killer app for LLMs, surprised to see this problem in 2026.

claude fails on RTL like im using IE 6. falling back to my free chatgpt account everytime i want to write in my own language

Armenian is LTR, so that can't be it...

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Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials. Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because w…

...voice mode bypasses custom instructions? But why? Without a custom prompt it's both unreliable and obnoxious.

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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> Thought process

Given that the language of the thought process can be different from the language of conversation, it’s interesting to consider, along the lines of Sapir–Whorf, whether having LLMs think in a different language than English could yield considerably different results, irrespective of conversation language.

(Of course, there is the problem that the training material is predominantly English.)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.

Only if you didn't read it, and just assign random opinions that you don't like to people who seem to disagree with your characterizations of things. Extremely twitter-brained.

No, saying that the Armenian genocide wasn't just "ethnic cleansing" isn't "a great example of whataboutism."

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> Thought process Given that the language of the thought process can be different from the language of conversation, it’s interesting to consider, along the lines of Sapir–Whorf, whether having LLMs think in a different language than English could yield considerably different results, irrespective of conversation language. (Of course, there is the problem that the training material is predominantly English.)

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Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I briefly considered that but I couldn’t bring myself to countenance that somebody would make light of a bona fide ethnic cleansing.

Ethnic cleansing is what Azerbaijan recently did to ethnic Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan (expelling them and stealing their homes when they fled to Armenia). What Turkey did was straight up genocide (forcibly marching them through the desert where many died)

https://youtu.be/Rr9zXuG0-c0?si=O14GnPdhFXWKeMUm

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials. Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because w…

If you're a coder then it sounds like you could use the API to get around that and once again utilize your custom prompt with their tech.

I think the subscriptions tend to be a significant discount over paying for tokens yourself

Re: guys why does armenian completely break Claude

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a great example of “whataboutism”.

Only if you didn't read it, and just assign random opinions that you don't like to people who seem to disagree with your characterizations of things. Extremely twitter-brained. No, saying that the Armenian genocide wasn't just "ethnic cleansing" isn't "a great example of whataboutism."

Well then same goes for saying, there was no genocide.
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