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Too many em dashes? Weird words like ‘delves’? Spotting text written by ChatGPT is still more art than science
Too many em dashes? Weird words like ‘delves’? Spotting text written by ChatGPT is still more art than science Language experts and everyday people are struggling to distinguish human-written text from AI-generated text, with studies showing that even rare or unusual words can be misleading. Researchers have found that chatbots are increasingly being used to […]
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How new words enter our language
How new words enter our language According to linguistics expert Christopher Green, most new words in American English are not entirely new creations, but rather repurposed pieces of existing terms or nuanced changes in meaning. New words often emerge and spread rapidly through digital platforms, such as social media, which accelerates language evolution and helps […]
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A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names
A bottlenose dolphin? Or Tursiops truncatus? Why biologists give organisms those strange, unpronounceable names The system of scientific naming, known as taxonomy, was developed in the 1700s by Carl Linnaeus to provide precise and consistent names for organisms. The binomial nomenclature system uses a two-word combination, where the first word is the genus (a group […]
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Google’s AI podcast maker is now available in over 50 languages
Google’s AI podcast maker is now available in over 50 languages Google’s AI podcast maker, Audio Overviews, is now available in over 50 languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, and Chinese. To switch to a different language, users can select their settings in the top-right corner of the Google NotebookLM app and choose […]
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Bonobos communicate a lot like humans
Bonobos communicate a lot like humans Bonobos have been found to communicate in complex ways similar to humans, using combinations of calls that convey meaningful information. A new study used novel methods from linguistics to demonstrate that bonobo vocal communication relies on compositionality, a key feature of human language. The researchers created a “bonobo dictionary” […]
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Spanish speakers in Philadelphia break traditional rules of formal and informal speech in signs around town
Spanish speakers in Philadelphia break traditional rules of formal and informal speech in signs around town Spanish-language signs in Philadelphia contradict the grammar lessons most of us were taught. Daniel Guarin Buitrago, CC BY-ND I’ve discovered something fascinating about how Spanish speakers in Philadelphia address each other and communicate through public signs. The discovery is […]
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