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Mildly Infuriating

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Grammar aside, it's an odd choice to fill up half the page with 747s if you want to showcase the variety of commercial passenger airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago

I'm more annoyed at the lack of anything prop.

Not everything is a international long haul.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It genuinely took me a while to see what was wrong with it, my brain was autocorrecting it

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Many modern theories in cognitive science posit that the brain's objective is to be a kind of "prediction machine" to predict the incoming stream of sensory information from the top down, as well as processing it from the bottom up. This is sometimes referred to through the aphorism "perception is controlled hallucination".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

So human thought is … text prediction?

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago (1 children)

See, I thought it was mildly infuriating because the images aren’t “many types of airplanes”, they’re only a few types of airplanes repeated at different sizes or different angles.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

"They are many words."

[Page with the word "word" in 3D at 10 different angles and rotations.]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My brain autocorrected this for me, and I was confused why you were posting it at first.

This reminds me, there is a thing that the human mind can read horribly spelled words — as long as the general idea of it is the same (most of the time the end and beginning). I would try to find an example, but it’s late and my ability to form proper search queries os diminished.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just invret two letters in a wrod that are not the first or the last. You will read just fine and prboably not even notice. Like this cmoment you just read

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Disregarding the bad grammar, the picture shows a terrible variety of airplanes. They're all some sort of commercial passenger jet.

It's like saying, "there's so many kinds of motorcycles!" while showing only various Harleys. Let's just ignore the dirt bikes, sport bikes, and everything in between.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

What's wrong? They are many different kinds of airplanes. Why are they airplanes and not people, though?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Using "they" when you haven't yet established the group you are referring to in context feels weird and kinda wrong, especially if it's about a group of inanimate objects. It really looks like the word should have been "there", but they just mistyped and then didn't catch the error in the editing process or didn't bother to correct it.

That's what I think is wrong here. I'm not 100% sure that this grammatically wrong, but it sure feels like it. Might depend on what the page before this one said.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

It’s in a book for 5 years old to learn to read. It’s supposed to be simple words in simple sentences. This is not it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

The issue is on both pages. Lack of knowledge of English on one, and lazy copy/pasta of similar airplanes on the other.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is the issue that all the plains are basically the same kind of wide and narrow-body passenger jets? Like there is hardly any variety in the images?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

the issue is with the text.

it says "they are .." instead of "there are ..."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had to look a second time. My brain just auto-corrected that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

holy crap. I must have read it 3-4 times, STILL found nothing wrong, so I went to the comments. It took this comment train for me to see it, meaning you had to tell me literally what it was.

Human brains are so neat sometimes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Buddy, we are talking about planes. But no, that isn't the issue.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It's a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these at a young age.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't try to redirect stupidity from people to computers. We're more than capable of doing stupid things without the help of our AI overlords.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

No. AI wouldn't mess up like that. It could spew other kinds of shit, but with excellent syntax. It's far more likely for humans to make mistakes like that.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (13 children)

TIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, "airplane" is simplified English, for simpletons

"Aeroplane" is fancypants English

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are so many good kind of AI written books nowdays

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Funny that as a non-native I’m less likely to make such a mistake than natives. At some point I had to learn the basics or something. Not that I don’t make mistakes

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Same here I’m French native. The there their they’re thing doesn’t affect me.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Probably went like: There are->There're->They're->They are

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are many kinds...

They are is incorrect, and the word "so" is superfluous.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

That reminds me, why do so many people confuse "they're", "their" and "there"?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

They are. What's the problem?

Like honestly, it's a simple present tense sentence, talking about those airplanes right next to it. They are so many kinds!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

I guess the problem is that, while technically accurate English, it's a pretty non-standard usage. One sees a page full of a variety of planes and it's expected that the following text will make a general statement on planes as an idea: There are so many kinds of planes!

To refer to a group as the book does, it's just kind of clunky and awkward, and on top of that so many kinds is, in my experience, just an unusual adjective form. Teaching children how to read isn't just about learning how to sound out words: it's also about how to suss out their meaning, and a child at this reading level may have a hard time understanding the more abstract grammatical form that this book decided to take.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

All airplanes are jetliners.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"They" instead of "their."

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Can't tell if you're trolling

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Ha. And now I'm crying/laughing. Thank you all.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Honest mistake, but I wanna double down because its funnier that way.

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