• relevants@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Grammar aside, it’s an odd choice to fill up half the page with 747s if you want to showcase the variety of commercial passenger airplanes.

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    11 months ago

    See, I thought it was mildly infuriating because the images aren’t “many types of airplanes”, they’re only a few types of airplanes repeated at different sizes or different angles.

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    11 months ago

    My brain autocorrected this for me, and I was confused why you were posting it at first.

    This reminds me, there is a thing that the human mind can read horribly spelled words — as long as the general idea of it is the same (most of the time the end and beginning). I would try to find an example, but it’s late and my ability to form proper search queries os diminished.

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      Using “they” when you haven’t yet established the group you are referring to in context feels weird and kinda wrong, especially if it’s about a group of inanimate objects. It really looks like the word should have been “there”, but they just mistyped and then didn’t catch the error in the editing process or didn’t bother to correct it.

      That’s what I think is wrong here. I’m not 100% sure that this grammatically wrong, but it sure feels like it. Might depend on what the page before this one said.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldOP
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        11 months ago

        It’s in a book for 5 years old to learn to read. It’s supposed to be simple words in simple sentences. This is not it.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        This is the only post in the entire thread attempting to parse the grammar.

        It feels wrong because as you pointed out, as text, the pronoun “they” has no antecedent. Who are they?

        But there is a picture, too. That’s them!

        It’s not just type, it’s typography. You have to analyze the grammar of something like one page of a picture book or a movie poster or advert in its context.

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    11 months ago

    Is the issue that all the plains are basically the same kind of wide and narrow-body passenger jets? Like there is hardly any variety in the images?

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          11 months ago

          holy crap. I must have read it 3-4 times, STILL found nothing wrong, so I went to the comments. It took this comment train for me to see it, meaning you had to tell me literally what it was.

          Human brains are so neat sometimes.

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      11 months ago

      No, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons

      “Aeroplane” is fancypants English

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        …no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.

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          11 months ago

          How do you know we’re not secretly saying “gaol” but you’re hearing it as “jail”?

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        11 months ago

        downvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.

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          It’s an archaic word that pretty much fell out of usage in the 1800s. People don’t say it. It’s a word in very much the same way forsooth or something is.

          That’s why I downvoted.

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            11 months ago

            Fucksake man, can you genuinely not tell when someone is poking fun at you? Are you one of these types that need the /s, like the seppos do? 😂

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              They were not being sarcastic.

              This is a common misconception from Americans who presumably just read some 300 year old poem or book in their English literature lessons and assume everybody still writes like that.

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                They were definitely being tongue in cheek. No need to get your skidmarked knickers in a twist over a flippant comment.

                Might want to work on your reading comprehension old chap

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            11 months ago

            Recently saw Gaolor being played on Cats does Countdown so I think it counts.

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    This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these at a young age.

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      Don’t try to redirect stupidity from people to computers. We’re more than capable of doing stupid things without the help of our AI overlords.

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      No. AI wouldn’t mess up like that. It could spew other kinds of shit, but with excellent syntax. It’s far more likely for humans to make mistakes like that.

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      This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these they at a young age.

      FTFY

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      The good thing is: This type of book is read by parents to their 1-3 year old kids. You show the pictures and can filter weird sentences. This is not a book a 9 year old is going to read 😉

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    Funny that as a non-native I’m less likely to make such a mistake than natives. At some point I had to learn the basics or something. Not that I don’t make mistakes

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        11 months ago

        I’ve always been a native English speaker, but my first 11 years of education weren’t in the U.S. I also don’t have an issue with: their, there, and they’re.

        Affect and effect were tough for me, though. I still have to think about it for a moment

        And slightly off topic, I still can’t tell the difference between pansexual and bisexual. Each time I feel like I have a decent internal definition someone comes along to inform me that I’ve got it wrong

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          Affect: action impacts you Effect: your action has an impact Bisexual: you like boys and girls Pansexual: you like boys, girls, boys that are girls, girls that are boys, people that identify as themselves…

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    11 months ago

    The issue is on both pages. Lack of knowledge of English on one, and lazy copy/pasta of similar airplanes on the other.

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    Disregarding the bad grammar, the picture shows a terrible variety of airplanes. They’re all some sort of commercial passenger jet.

    It’s like saying, “there’s so many kinds of motorcycles!” while showing only various Harleys. Let’s just ignore the dirt bikes, sport bikes, and everything in between.

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    11 months ago

    That reminds me, why do so many people confuse “they’re”, “their” and “there”?