It genuinely took me a while to see what was wrong with it, my brain was autocorrecting it
This page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.
Submitted 6 months ago by LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5e376585-33b8-4213-b181-ac13e91ff046.jpeg
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TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Barack_Embalmer@lemmy.world 6 months 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”.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
So human thought is … text prediction?
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
That sounds extremely interesting, i gotta look into that when i have more time
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even after reading your comment, it took me three more tries to see it! Wild.
morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months 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.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
“There are many words.”
[Page with the word “word” in 3D at 10 different angles and rotations.]
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Maddie@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Well, they are
jaykay@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
I read „there are” until I saw this comment lol brain got TOO automatic
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 6 months 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.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Damn right i am
Ddhuud@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
squaresinger@feddit.de 6 months 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
thesethey at a young age.FTFY
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They is for thorses
abcd@feddit.de 6 months 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 😉
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
What’s wrong? They are many different airplanes. Why are they airplanes and not people, though?
waigl@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
JustZ@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Should be “There”
Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The issue is on both pages. Lack of knowledge of English on one, and lazy copy/pasta of similar airplanes on the other.
Bagel5941@aussie.zone 6 months ago
TIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons
“Aeroplane” is fancypants English
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Americans invented it, Americans get to name it
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Brought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for hundreds of years.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
downvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There are many kinds…
They are is incorrect, and the word “so” is superfluous.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 6 months 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! 🛬🛫 🛩️✈️
JustZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are different.
Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 months 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
JustZ@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 6 months 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”.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
JustZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, okay, clever. All different brands and configurations.
charonn0@startrek.website 6 months ago
Who is so many airplanes?
JustZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Look in your left hand.
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same here I’m French native. The there their they’re thing doesn’t affect me.
rosymind@leminal.space 6 months 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
camelbeard@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They are so many good kind of AI written books nowdays
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Funny enough, I bet an Ai would not make that mistake.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just like a human it really depends on what you feed your AI as training data.
charonn0@startrek.website 6 months ago
Probably went like: There are->There’re->They’re->They are
Xenos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Their’re
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
What’s wrong with it?
FireWire400@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That reminds me, why do so many people confuse “they’re”, “their” and “there”?
thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Because we speak a very stupid language that has words that are pronounced the same but spelled different
Retrograde@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fondots@lemmy.world 6 months 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.”
dan@upvote.au 6 months ago
The same reason people confuse your, you’re, yore and yaw I guess.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Guess what gets assembled in factories in Texas…
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do there make planes there?
UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pft. Can’t even spell they’re. Figure it out.
Kethal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All airplanes are jetliners.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 6 months ago
When Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott join forces to create the new learning plan…
roguetrick@kbin.social 6 months ago
I don't get it.
someguy3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“They [sic] are…”
My brain just filled it in, I had to read the comments to notice.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
That’s literally just civilian airliners. Only one type of plane
roguetrick@kbin.social 6 months ago
Sure, but they're different in kind. Double deckers, twin engine.
specseaweed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So is this just some AI generated crap or what
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 months 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
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That airport is too busy. I feel bad for the controllers.
snf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shortstop’s the best position they is.
relevants@feddit.de 6 months 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.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m more annoyed at the lack of anything prop.
Not everything is a international long haul.