• @madcat@lemm.ee
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    173 months ago

    Because there is no such thing as “African American English”. There is proper English and then there is slang.

        • Lvxferre
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          153 months ago

          It’s kind of off-topic, but also on-topic:

          The Queen/king and no one else.

          King Charles uses a variety called Received Pronunciation, but both of his sons (William and Harry) use Southern Standard British instead. Geoff Lindsey has a video on the differences.

          As such, once William rises to the throne, what’s considered “the King’s English” will change. And, alongside it, what plenty people in the UK consider as standard English will change too.

    • TimeSquirrel
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      143 months ago

      Color or colour? Truck or lorry? Cookie or biscuit?Which one is “proper”?

    • Lvxferre
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      123 months ago

      What you call “proper English” (or “proper” any other language) is merely an arbitrary construct. It is not set on stone.

      That applies to all levels of a language, by the way, not just vocabulary (“slang”).

      • @madcat@lemm.ee
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        12 months ago

        Slang is slang. It’s always used verbally. I am not sure why someone would expect a llm to generate proper slang. Not sure at all how stating that fact makes one a “bigot”.

    • @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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      23 months ago

      It’s bad enough the American’s are too stupid to use the proper one that we have to have two.

      But people talking incorrectly is not a reason to write like that. Unless it’s a character speaking or whatever.