AI Sauce
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This should add some zest to the debate over AI.
She's not the only one. I've seen a lot of people mix up AI and A1.
Selected readings
- "AI (and human ingenuity) to the rescue" (2/6/24)
- "AI encroachments" (7/21/23)
- "The AI threat: keep calm and carry on" (6/29/23)
- "'Tomato sauce' in Cantonese, with a trigger warning" (10/30/23)
- "'Sauce' and 'caravanserai': linguistic notes from southeast Texas" (1/4/12) — with 97 substantial comments, this is one of the richest collections of notes on the catsup conundrum available anywhere, with plentiful, flavorful observations on "sauce".
- "Ketchup", a virtuoso blog post on The Language of Food (9/2/09) by Dan Jurafsky
The last two posts together are definitive.
[h.t. François Lang]
Tom Ace said,
April 13, 2025 @ 5:18 pm
A friend of mine guessed that ASCII was pronounced 'ask-two'.
cameron said,
April 13, 2025 @ 11:42 pm
this is a new one to me. has she been living under a rock for the past forty years?
David Marjanović said,
April 14, 2025 @ 5:15 am
Mistake in the title of the video: Linda McMahon is the Secretary against Education.
Olaf Zimmermann said,
April 14, 2025 @ 5:57 am
Don't knock the A1 – it leads all the way to Edinburgh.
KeithB said,
April 14, 2025 @ 8:47 am
Did Language log ever cover Trump's "One Corinthians" remark? My google foo failed.
Francois Lang said,
April 14, 2025 @ 9:45 am
Never has "kakistocracy" become so relevant.
Also, A.1. has trotted out an ad campaign. e.g.,
https://cybernews.com/ai-news/trumps-education-secretary-makes-a-tasty-mistake/
McMahon evidently didn't have much at steak.
Rodger C said,
April 14, 2025 @ 10:08 am
KethB, it was "Two Corinthians."
JJM said,
April 14, 2025 @ 4:23 pm
Oh dear.
I seem to recall Gore Vidal going on conspiratorially about various US Government schemes and plots in a BBC TV interview but then referring to EM ONE SIX (i.e., MI6).
Nothing puts a dent in your credibility quite so fast as getting the trade jargon of the trade wrong.
JJM said,
April 14, 2025 @ 4:25 pm
Sorry, that first "trade" in my above comment should have been edited out.
I blame AY ONE for this.
Scott P. said,
April 14, 2025 @ 6:09 pm
There was an old Saturday Night Live skit where the fake Bob Dole referred to "Generation Ten."
Roscoe said,
April 14, 2025 @ 6:42 pm
On “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the title character insists that “Malcolm the Tenth was a Black pope!”
HS said,
April 14, 2025 @ 8:10 pm
Do Americans say "First Corinthians"? "One" is certainly common if not standard in British and New Zealand English.