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Language in the age of AI: Whimsymaxxing the apocalypse (opens the original)
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Cake pop is half-cake, half-lollipop. Picture a skewered Malteser, the treat a novelty on the language radar. Around September, dictionaries like America’s Merriam-Webster get a glow-up (another newbie) by looksmaxxing (a third) their database, adding some new 1400 words. Food overall has been restless, the menu extended by chilli crisp, bao bun and a Japanese pepper called shishito. Far less tasty is promposal, a date you take to your year 12 dance. Though copium is handier, a hybrid of cope an
Don’t believe the bot: When AI confidently gets things wrong (opens the original)
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You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Care for a drop of Sahara Silk? Or maybe a splash of Oasis White? Each name is a would-be brand for camel milk, put forward by Google AI Overview. Not bad for a lactose-intolerant chatbot. The exercise arose from my talk with Paul Martin, the founder of Summer Land Camels, who’s selling his milk to the world, presuming he can pick the right label. Though at this stage, with sales going well, Camel
TV or not TV: Our favourite two-letter word is having an identity crisis (opens the original)
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Off Campus is the hottest TV show among Millennials, though Millennials don’t say TV any more. But it is TV, I argued with my daughter, because we watch this ice-hockey love triangle on a TV screen, even if the series doesn’t appear in the TV guide. “Do we though?” asked Tess. At 29, training to be a relationship counsellor, Tess has a gift for rhetoric. “I’m as likely to watch it on my laptop or my phone.” Still a screen, I countered, though my feet were sinking. I felt like Garrett, the hockey
For a month, I relived the days when posting meant letters, not your Insta feed (opens the original)
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The haiku is a Japanese verse of three lines and 17 syllables. Or 300 lines and 1700 syllables if you write 100 haiku. No small decision, as Kelly Higgins-Devine learnt halfway into her marathon, pledging to crank out a haiku a day – over 100 days. Why, you ask? Fair to say, Kelly asked the same question after Haiku #62, or whenever she hit the wall. But ABC Brisbane’s Evenings host persevered, knowing her listeners were rolling their own Sisyphean boulders. Since that was the deal. Everyone cho
Fifty shades of … what? The absurd quest to name colours (opens the original)
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Wander down the paint aisle of any hardware store, and you’ll drown in pastels, from Fair Bianca to Eggshell via Napkin. See the problem? Back in the day, white was white. But not now. Today one painter’s Vanilla is another’s Rice Cake. Today we deal in glosses and mattes, where Dulux’s Little Lamb is Taubmans’ Albatross. It’s madness on a maulstick. Even back in 1755, Doctor Johnson waves the white flag. Within his pioneering dictionary, Johnson defined pink as “a colour used by painters”. Whil
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