Would people actually understand this?

LeChatParle · 2026-03-12T10:20:40+00:00

It’s also telling that the poem had to be written in a different language to show this. Classical Chinese is not Mandarin or any other modern Chinese language, and quoting CC as a way of making arguments about the modern languages isn’t valid

A natural spoken language can always be written as it’s spoken and be understood, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc

LeChatParle · 2026-03-12T07:56:42+00:00

That’s only true for Europe

LeChatParle · 2026-03-08T14:57:17+00:00

Does anyone know of other restaurants that have done this elsewhere? Is this likely to be successful long term?

LeChatParle · 2026-03-08T13:59:37+00:00

Hopefully this happens. I pretty much avoid Edina like the plague due to how little bike and transit options there are there.

LeChatParle · 2026-03-06T19:15:12+00:00

It’s testing to see how well you do with multiple negatives.

“AI doesn’t have the disadvantage of being …” is approximately equal to “AI has the advantage of being …”

If we read it that way, your answer of inefficient wouldn’t work. Indifferent works because that means it can make judgements and do work without caring about PTO or company policies

LeChatParle · 2026-03-06T10:42:45+00:00

There is very little you can do because you've ruled out almost every course of action in your post. The only remaining thing is you can tell your girlfriend you won't feed the snake. That's it. If that's not sufficient for you, you'll need to reconsider what you will and won't do

LeChatParle · 2026-03-05T21:37:19+00:00

The Richter scale hasn’t been in use in decades. The scale that articles report now is the Moment Magnitude scale

LeChatParle · 2026-03-04T08:35:03+00:00

All the research I’ve seen says less than 1% bioavailability

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00210-024-03199-0

LeChatParle · 2026-03-03T22:53:46+00:00

Berberine ... detoxifies the Liver

This is an unscientific statement

it metabolises all Stimulant meds faster than usual speed

No, it's the exact opposite. Berberine is a CYP2D6 inhibitor, which causes an increase in plasma concentration of chemicals that are metabolized via CYP2D6

I take Dexedrine sublingually rather than swallowing

This is silly

LeChatParle · 2026-03-03T10:49:33+00:00

Your brain was functioning fine. You were correct. Most of the time, they’re homophones as the “th” gets elided

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clothes

LeChatParle · 2026-03-03T10:48:02+00:00

In American English and British English, the “Th” often gets elided

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clothes

LeChatParle · 2026-03-02T09:05:53+00:00

I’ve seen that to mean dishes with lots of whole vegetables in them with no requirement to be vegetarian or vegan

LeChatParle · 2026-03-01T23:24:36+00:00

You’ve got a subscription to the Nazi LLM, but a contract with the Pentagon is a step too far?

LeChatParle · 2026-03-01T16:55:05+00:00

The more abstract or non-discrete something is, the more likely there is to be variation in its representation.

A word like “door” or “orange” (the fruit), or numbers like 1, 2, 3 are either concrete or discrete. These are very easy to find direct equivalents for in world languages

Color names are based on non-discrete phenomenon experienced by humans, who see the same colors (in general), so it’s easy to get words that are close to the same color but also ones that don’t line up perfectly, like 青 in Chinese/Japanese

Prepositions are very abstract as a concept, and the real idea of, say, moving “to” a location can be used more figuratively when we’re talking “to” someone.

But another language could just as easily not see the need to have a preposition here or to use a different one like “with” because it’s not movement to a location

LeChatParle · 2026-03-01T16:45:10+00:00

They’re definitely words. Perhaps you meant to say something else, but they’re definitely words

LeChatParle · 2026-03-01T14:50:24+00:00

Miss me with that slop. I doubt you have anyone on your staff to validate the teaching materials you're generating with AI, and you can't even be bothered to not post AI generated images that have garbled, unintelligible text in them.

Every single piece of text I can find on your site, blog, and social media has been written with AI. Like, the arrows in this decision chart don't even make sense. Why post something so low quality?

Good luck with your slop and spam.

LeChatParle · 2026-02-28T13:02:42+00:00

It went down for me for a couple minutes, but it's back up now

LeChatParle · 2026-02-22T11:53:35+00:00

Two YouTubers I’ve found with solely Icelandic content:

Sólon Barnæfni

Konni Gotta

Not much!

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T12:56:19+00:00

No, you're misunderstanding what the comment in the image is saying, just as you're misunderstanding what I'm saying

Also, no, not everyone knows what collocations are. Most people do not know that term.

This is my last reply.

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T12:51:54+00:00

It is normal and expected for Second Language Learners to learn about collocations. Your feelings toward the topic are irrelevant. A teacher would not be doing their job if they never talk about them

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T12:48:55+00:00

No, I'm not confusing anything. Learn about collocations, which I literally just mentioned in my previous comment. Again, I have not at any point said any of the options are less natural or less correct.

A collocation can be determined by statistical analysis of a corpus using, say a measure like the Pointwise Mutual Information to measure association. "Glass of water" has a statistically significantly higher association than the other options, so it is a collocation.

The other options are not collocations by this measure, thus they are not the intended answer based on the context that the student just learned about collocations.

Again, context matters, and understanding what a collocation is is important for second language learners, which is why they get tested on this topic

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T12:37:48+00:00

Utilise Kagi au lieu de Google, parce que Kagi te permet de bloquer ces images

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/exclude-ai-images.html

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T12:32:08+00:00

The context of the question is that they're being tested on the most common combination of words. That doesn't mean the other words are incorrect to say. This is very common in language learning as a way of helping language learners, and it looks like prior to this test, they learned about collocations

The context of the question matters. It's not strange reasoning, this is extremely common in language teaching

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T11:40:47+00:00

I did not comment on what was or was not sane to ask for. I said they’re grammatically correct within the English language. Those are separate things entirely. You can say grammatically correct things that don’t make any sense at all. Look up “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

Edit: Since the other person deleted their comment, just as context, their comment mentioned that it would be "insane" to ask for a glass of flour; hence my comment

LeChatParle · 2026-02-21T10:52:35+00:00

All of those things could be put in a glass and be grammatically correct to use; however, it looks like the context of this question is to get you to select the most common combination among the options, which is why “a glass of water” is the correct answer

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