[FRIAM] "I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM"

[Eric Charles]

There was a very conscious effort to latin-ize English,  with the view that
it was superior.  It's a big chunk of why English spelling is so screwed
up.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:56 AM Russell Standish <lists at hpcoders.com.au>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 05:19:38PM -0700, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> > Very good, Stephen.  More feelingful and poetic than my writing.  What I
> wrote
> > is more factual and specific.  I wish mine could have been a bit more
> > "romantic" but it was me.  (Grammar requires "I" but...)
>
> Agreement of the copula seems to me to be rule imposed on English by
> latin scholars. English is a Germanic language, and in German, one
> would say "es war mir", not "es war ich".
>
>
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