Several of my PRC M.A. students have told me that the following tool for the computation of dialect closeness has become quite popular in China:
fāngyán yīnxì xiāngsì dù cèshì 方言音系相似度測試 ("Dialect phonological similarity test"),V3.2.358
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South Korea exam chief quits over 'insane' English test | BBC New (12/12/25)
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[This is a guest post by Randoh Sallihall]
Analysis of Google search data for 2025 reveals the most searched for texting abbreviations in America.
Study reveals most searched for text abbreviations in America:
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"AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds:
A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less." Cam Wilson, Crikey (Sep 03, 2024)
Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found.
Amazon conducted the test earlier this year for Australia’s corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) using submissions made to an inquiry. The outcome of the trial was revealed in an answer to a questions on notice at the Senate select committee on adopting artificial intelligence.
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An anonymous contributor was curious what the real and would-be copy-editors who hang around LL might make of the below — which may serve to represent for those unfamiliar what is actually going on within the so-called "Language & Writing" portion of our now-acclaimed, now-derided "Scholastic Aptitude [no wait Assessment] Test".
The anonymous contributor can give the correct answer later if it is not obvious; it was not to him.
SAT question
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