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.
Victor Mair said,
April 15, 2025 @ 5:13 am
From the time I was a child until I went to college, I attended half-a-dozen different Christian denominations, and they all said "First and Second Corinthians".
PhilB said,
April 14, 2025 @ 8:42 pm
In a characteristically witty and insightful talk on artificial intelligence given at King's College London’s Digital Futures Institute, Stephen Fry suggested that anyone with names such as Alfred, Albert and so on, that get shortened to Al, would be delighted if instead of AI, the abbreviation was Ai, given that in so many digital typefaces the upper case I is the same as the lower case l. So much more important, perhaps, than worrying about politicians confusing I and 1! The text, making use of 'Ai', is available here:
https://stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-to-an-end-or-a-means-to
Kenny Easwaran said,
April 15, 2025 @ 7:18 pm
I was definitely very confused a few years back when the Dairy Queen a block from my house was advertisings its "AI bacon belt buster".
Ex Tex said,
April 16, 2025 @ 2:26 pm
I'm reminded of Philomena Cunk's report on the "Titan 1C, The world's first single-use submarine".
https://youtu.be/TblgTAgwwx0?si=XwfOQD9wweGaZNuG