That info is a mess, and doesn’t really apply to the topic. It’s also misleading.
The root of the word afaik is found in exactly one word each of the three relevant languages: “deutsch”, “duits”, “dutch”.
“deutsch” is german and means german.
“duits” is dutch and means german.
“dutch” id english and means dutch.
So if you literally translate "dutch land* using their closest equivalents based on word history into any germanic language, you will obtain “german land” i.e. germany.
No idea what english was doing here, but every germanic language can agree the word-family of dutch should have it mean german.
Maybe the netherlands were the only relevant country to england so they just called those particular duitsmen the only duits and then had to replace the original meaning of the word with german when duits was changed.
Either way, the etymology of the word “þiudiskaz” is definitely not the reason the dutch are called that in english, the reason for that must be in english itself probably in the last 500 years somewhere. It is a uniquely english and relatively modern phenomenon, forming the meme of this post since it neither makes sense nor matches and of the actual nations or native languages involved.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Thank you for disclosing that you used ai
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Notice the number of downvotes I received - PERSONAL RECORD - YES BRING IT ON ! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 Ironically, everybody is doing it, but nobody will admit it 🤭
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 18 hours ago
This is the kind of thing people tell themselves about all kinds of behaviors to justify those behaviors but it’s usually not the case. We just tend to assume everyone does what we do, it’s a really common cognitive dissonance reduction tool.
“People say you shouldn’t do X. I do X. I’m not a bad person. Everyone else is also doing X and just pretending they don’t.”
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 18 hours ago
I don’t think the downvotes you’re getting are from people who themselves use LLMs, that would be quite hypocritical don’t you think ?
I think this is a case where you ought to look up an encyclopedia. Trusting these LLMs because they look and sound like natural language produced by a person is a mistake.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I’m not. ChatGPT is trained on my Reddit posting history so it sounds like me half the time…
TheBat@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It? That’s how you talk about your mum?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 16 hours ago
LOL, fuck off.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
No. We’re not all doing it, only the douchebags.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 hours ago
I find it correlates directly to critical thought ability. The less you have, the more you use it.
In my experience personality doesn’t come into it otherwise.