This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.

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• relevants@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Grammar aside, it’s an odd choice to fill up half the page with 747s if you want to showcase the variety of commercial passenger airplanes.

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  • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m more annoyed at the lack of anything prop.

    Not everything is a international long haul.

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• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It genuinely took me a while to see what was wrong with it, my brain was autocorrecting it

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  • Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many modern theories in cognitive science posit that the brain’s objective is to be a kind of “prediction machine” to predict the incoming stream of sensory information from the top down, as well as processing it from the bottom up. This is sometimes referred to through the aphorism “perception is controlled hallucination”.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So human thought is … text prediction?

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    • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That sounds extremely interesting, i gotta look into that when i have more time

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  • jennwiththesea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even after reading your comment, it took me three more tries to see it! Wild.

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• morganth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  See, I thought it was mildly infuriating because the images aren’t “many types of airplanes”, they’re only a few types of airplanes repeated at different sizes or different angles.

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “There are many words.”

    [Page with the word “word” in 3D at 10 different angles and rotations.]

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They* are many words

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• Maddie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well, they are

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  • jaykay@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I read „there are” until I saw this comment lol brain got TOO automatic

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• cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they are so many planes

  Image

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    planes

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    • Knusper@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      different planes

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Disregarding the bad grammar, the picture shows a terrible variety of airplanes. They’re all some sort of commercial passenger jet.

  It’s like saying, “there’s so many kinds of motorcycles!” while showing only various Harleys. Let’s just ignore the dirt bikes, sport bikes, and everything in between.

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• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these at a young age.

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  • francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t try to redirect stupidity from people to computers. We’re more than capable of doing stupid things without the help of our AI overlords.

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    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn right i am

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  • Ddhuud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No. AI wouldn’t mess up like that. It could spew other kinds of shit, but with excellent syntax. It’s far more likely for humans to make mistakes like that.

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  • squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these they at a young age.

    FTFY

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They is for thorses

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  • abcd@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The good thing is: This type of book is read by parents to their 1-3 year old kids. You show the pictures and can filter weird sentences. This is not a book a 9 year old is going to read 😉

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s wrong? They are many different airplanes. Why are they airplanes and not people, though?

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  • waigl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Using “they” when you haven’t yet established the group you are referring to in context feels weird and kinda wrong, especially if it’s about a group of inanimate objects. It really looks like the word should have been “there”, but they just mistyped and then didn’t catch the error in the editing process or didn’t bother to correct it.

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s in a book for 5 years old to learn to read. It’s supposed to be simple words in simple sentences. This is not it.

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    • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the only post in the entire thread attempting to parse the grammar.

      It feels wrong because as you pointed out, as text, the pronoun “they” has no antecedent. Who are they?

      But there is a picture, too. That’s them!

      It’s not just type, it’s typography. You have to analyze the grammar of something like one page of a picture book or a movie poster or advert in its context.

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Should be “There”

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• Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The issue is on both pages. Lack of knowledge of English on one, and lazy copy/pasta of similar airplanes on the other.

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• Bagel5941@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.

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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons

    “Aeroplane” is fancypants English

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Americans invented it, Americans get to name it

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for hundreds of years.

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    • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      downvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.

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• BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are many kinds…

  They are is incorrect, and the word “so” is superfluous.

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  • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Spoken like a true Grammarly AI tool for all those extra words.

    They’re practically useless if you’re going for nice prose and emphasis…

    There are many kinds of airplanes!

    There are sooooooo~ many kinds of airplanes! 🛬🛫 🛩️✈️

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• JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are different.

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess the problem is that, while technically accurate English, it’s a pretty non-standard usage. One sees a page full of a variety of planes and it’s expected that the following text will make a general statement on planes as an idea: There are so many kinds of planes!

    To refer to a group as the book does, it’s just kind of clunky and awkward, and on top of that so many kinds is, in my experience, just an unusual adjective form. Teaching children how to read isn’t just about learning how to sound out words: it’s also about how to suss out their meaning, and a child at this reading level may have a hard time understanding the more abstract grammatical form that this book decided to take.

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  • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess there’s 2 things. One is people being picky about ‘They are’ vs. ‘They are’ and the second is that they’ve probably not shown a very wide variety

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    • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I see it. “There are” and “they are” are different sentences with slightly different meanings. Writing this way is correct and j thknknupull find someone in older children’s books and even adult books. Tolkien wrote often in this way that sounds clunky to the modern ear. I read a lot of old stuff so to me it sounds more familiar and correct even.

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    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My subconscious autocorrected that the first time I read it. It was only after reading your comment and going back to look again that I realized they had not written “There are”.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But they aren’t, then. That’s one kind of plane, which technically isn’t even called an airplane, because it’s a jet plane.

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    • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, okay, clever. All different brands and configurations.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who is so many airplanes?

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    • JustZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Look in your left hand.

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• azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny that as a non-native I’m less likely to make such a mistake than natives. At some point I had to learn the basics or something

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same here I’m French native. The there their they’re thing doesn’t affect me.

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    • rosymind@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve always been a native English speaker, but my first 11 years of education weren’t in the U.S. I also don’t have an issue with: their, there, and they’re.

      Affect and effect were tough for me, though. I still have to think about it for a moment

      And slightly off topic, I still can’t tell the difference between pansexual and bisexual. Each time I feel like I have a decent internal definition someone comes along to inform me that I’ve got it wrong

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• camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are so many good kind of AI written books nowdays

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funny enough, I bet an Ai would not make that mistake.

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    • camelbeard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just like a human it really depends on what you feed your AI as training data.

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• charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably went like: There are->There’re->They’re->They are

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  • Xenos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Their’re

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *you’re

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    • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      you’re mom

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with it?

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “They” instead of “their.”

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t tell if you’re trolling

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What?

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• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That reminds me, why do so many people confuse “they’re”, “their” and “there”?

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  • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because we speak a very stupid language that has words that are pronounced the same but spelled different

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    • Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because their committed to the bit that the only thing they learned in school is that “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.”

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The same reason people confuse your, you’re, yore and yaw I guess.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guess what gets assembled in factories in Texas…

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  • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do there make planes there?

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    • UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pft. Can’t even spell they’re. Figure it out.

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• Kethal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All airplanes are jetliners.

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• GiddyGap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott join forces to create the new learning plan…

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don't get it.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “They [sic] are…”

    My brain just filled it in, I had to read the comments to notice.

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  • AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s literally just civilian airliners. Only one type of plane

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure, but they're different in kind. Double deckers, twin engine.

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• specseaweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So is this just some AI generated crap or what

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• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Draw some Trade Center Towers on the page with the text and everytime you pass the page you can have your own 9/11

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That airport is too busy. I feel bad for the controllers.

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• snf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Shortstop’s the best position they is.

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