Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day agoIt’s literally the English version of an Old Testament name. It’s not Aiden or whatever the new hotness is, but it’s not uncommon.
AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Rachel is a very common given name. “Rach” is a fairly common nickname for it. “Rach” is not a common given name.
I just took a look at some baby name sites to try and find some statistics. I actually can’t find a single person named “Rach” because all the sites assume I want statistics for the long form, even when I’m on the page for “Rach” and they also have a page for “Rachel.” I’m interpreting this as being given the short form as your name is extremely rare.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I’m not claiming her given name was Rach. In fact, calling her that was rather disastrous (family only), but it was all my brain could come up with after “hon” was actually barely avoided. For my boss. In the middle of the newsroom.
AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I believe you didn’t intend to, but you did claim it, twice. Hence why the commenter I initially replied to (in which I guessed you meant the common _nick_name) was confused.
Then you replied to me saying “it’s literally from the bible [so it’s a common name]” implying that you disagreed with me about it being a nickname and you did really mean it as a given name.
Hopefully that explains the confusion.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
To me, this simply is further evidence that LLMs aren’t ready for primetime, as though this were not already established.