i can just hold ‘t’ on my phone keyboard
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gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I get that it’s one person, I get that it’s an earnest but unsuccessful attempt to counter-AI, but also isn’t it kinda cool to advance the human language in a personal way. I’m surprised Lemmy is so upset by it, maybe that’s just the boomer mentality or maybe it’s the mentality of hating change, but like everyone can admit the English language is obtuse and hard to master and that’s partially because we have less letters than we have phonetic sounds (look at phonetic, it’s actually fOnetik). Couldn’t we use some advancement in that area of our life? And wouldn’t a grass roots movement on Lemmy symbolize the kind of simple, systemic changes we need more of this world? I mean isnt it kinda punk to improve the world in whatever way you can?
Idk, just reading the comments in this thread people seem more antagonistic than I would expect. It’s not like we’re/he’s jumping to the shavian alphabet. It’s just a single change that anyone can immediately solve after reading a sentence or two with it present.
Point is I like it. And I have no idea how to type it on my phone lol
naught@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
5
:(
Damn you Gboard
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dang, I just get a 5. Lol. I should look for new keyboards - I think that’s a thing phones can do? Which do you have? Is that a thing a person knows or can find out lol? Never once thought about my keyboard on my phone. Really big blind spot I got here I’m realizing.
naught@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I have an iPhone 13 with stock keyboard 😬 There are some popular alternative keyboards for android, but ive been out of the game too long
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No. Fuck that guy.
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why? Is there a history there or is this a you thing?
davidagain@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Haters gonna hate.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re lot advancing jack shit; they’re trying to game an ai that is radically smart then they are, and ai is pretty stupid.
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I don’t feel like you’re engaging with the concept as a whole, and are far more interested in either the specific reason a single person is doing this OR more likely just taking the opportunity to call someone dumb to make yourself feel good.
The reality is it’s probably not doing anything meaningful to AI data, but it is still an interesting concept from a language perspective. There’s no reason to get this worked up about something so trivial as combining the “th” sound into one character.