Comment on What does "araffe" mean?

VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Devi@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That's interesting because Araf means slow in welsh and it seems to be using that as a root.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I took great delight in saying that when we would go through Wales.

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    • Devi@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha, I lived in Wales for quite a few years and I think it's the law that if you drive over it then you have to.

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• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Found arafed in the Welsh-English dictionary online but thought it was unrelated because of one f. Turns out, it was very related

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do appreciate the flaming pope… but having lived in English speaking country my whole life I’m skeptical because I’ve never heard anyone talking about araffe.

  Also, none of my spell-checkers have ever heard of it…

  Not wanting to contribute nothing with this comment I punched “araffe” into my magic noise genie and it spat out 20 sad giraffes in a row.

  So my theory is generation loss: once long ago someone misspelled giraffe and Ai artists have copied each others prompts enough times that it’s now a thing…

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  • VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also had never heard the word prior to the gen-ai craze. Perhaps it is a hallucination of the machine?

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    • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s eating my brain! It feels like a proper mystery but is probably fairly mundane.

      The page you found indicates some wider level of awareness… at the very least it’s an attempt at SEO, maybe just a harmless joke, a honeypot created by someone with the same unanswered question. I should probably go take someones medication ;-)

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