Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

An anarchist here to ask asinine questions about the USSR. At least I was when I got here.

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  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtoAnime@hexbear.net•Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 6: revisiting some old unsolved titles, now with extra hints! Will it be too easy‽ Only one way to find out!English
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    4 小时前

    congratulations Sasuga. Well done.

    Full gloss + original text

    IrimǒStrawberry-SvepuyaMarshmallow

    "AriḱivGirls-CONS krayskicute fat́ivdoing-CONS krayskicutely sulivthings-CONS krayski."cute."

    Rinet́iBefriending guniothers čay,QUOT, kot́igoing-to kruňtaschool čay,QUOT, sint́itrying oget́eto-earn-money čay,QUOT, nasint́iobserving tvarspineyholidays čayQUOT bonxulivthings-CONS spinskieveryday ňaTOPIC yelulivthe-fibers-CONS yežetevthe-fabric-CONS zine.life. YespinzinivThe-daily-lives-CONS Itó-Ćiké,Itou-Chika, yemeňkevšeher-older-sister Nobuye,Nobue, uand yerinivšeher-friends Miǒ,Miu, Macuŕe,Matsuri, uand AnéAna ňaTOPIC yaroykeýavthe-TV-series-CONS dumaškaheartwarming “Irimǒ-Svepuya”“Strawberry-Marshmallow” sinódmožet́eyallows-to-see-and-hear e.you.

    Strawberry Marshmallow

    “Cute girls doing cute things in cute ways.”

    Everyday things make up the fabric of life, whether it’s making friends, going to school, trying to make money, or celebrating a holiday. Ichigo Mashimaro is a heartwarming series that follows the daily lives of Itou Chika, her sister Nobue, and her friends Miu, Matsuri, and Ana.

    About kraysk

    I hadn’t actually thought about how kraysk sounds similar to sakrask until now but hey I guess I’m making them canon cognates now! Out-of-universe I got the kray part of kraysk from a corruption of Standard Chinese 可爱kě’ài meaning “cute” — a word which I only know because the Wiktionary page for 可か愛わいい kawaii remarks on how the similarity between the Chinese and Japanese words for “cute” is entirely coincidental.

    I may have also been subtly subconsciously influenced by the Slavic word край / kraj meaning “edge”, related to words meaning things like “cut” and deriving from a PIE root meaning “to divide”: cute, after all, traces to a Latin word meaning “sharp”.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtonews@hexbear.net•Aftenposten: Norwegian Language Council sounds alarm about AI-generated dictionary full of incorrect information | Translation in post bodyEnglish
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    5 小时前

    Language learning resources containing woefully inaccurate information are, of course, nothing new, but LLMs represent a particular issue in how easily they can drown out or blend in with good materials, and how disproportionate LLM output quality can be between languages. I tried using a chatbot as a Japanese conversation partner once, and almost immediately gave up because it was spewing complete nonsense — and that’s Japanese, the eighth-most spoken language in the world by number of speakers, and one of the most in-demand languages for learning resources.

    Norwegian is tiny in comparison, and at that many Norwegians primarily navigate the Internet in English, which means that LLMs indiscriminately stealing content from the open Internet simply have less to work with in Norwegian. Things are worst of all, of course, for endangered Indigenous languages. If we put on our POSIWID caps, I might argue that AI slop serves to hinder people from learning both Norwegian and the endangered Indigenous languages: in the latter case, it’s a part of the cultural genocide, in the former case, it’s because many rights and privileges in Norway (not least naturalization) are tied to Norwegian proficiency — therefore the longer it takes immigrants to learn Norwegian, the harder it will be for them to acquire those rights and privileges. This is part of my critique of the role of the English language in Norway: if every Norwegian also knows English, and uses English when talking to immigrants and Norwegian when talking amongst themselves, then the immigrants are denied more opportunities to actively practice the language. I recently met a British immigrant who’s lived in this country since the '90s yet could hardly speak a word of Norwegian.

    We can also bring up Deaf issues here, as I recently shared an article about how some people are trying to use “AI” to make a Norwegian Sign Language translator… My friends, if “AI” gives us chiaoens in Norwegian — a language with like 2,000x more native speakers and probably 200,000x more training data and institutional support than Norwegian Sign Language — what the FUCK do you think it’s gonna do with Norwegian Sign Language‽ Deaf people criticize proposals to replace terps with AI for good reason. It’s abandonment.

    We can at least take solace in the fact that this shit is gonna collapse under its own weight sooner rather than later.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtoAnime@hexbear.net•Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 6: revisiting some old unsolved titles, now with extra hints! Will it be too easy‽ Only one way to find out!English
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    7 小时前

    congratulations And that just leaves Irimǒ-Svepuya to be solved. Very impressive work! Really brought a smile to my face seeing this.

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    YeDimtőThe-Demon-Neighbor-Girl

    Yośida-YúkǒYoshida-Yuuko ňaTOPIC dent́evlost-CONS snaske,dreamily, sowith šothat sint́esaw naon deherself bǒreyhorns uand zeňaa-tail he,TEMP, yemenevšeher-mother kruňet́etaught šeher naon sule,a-thing, šothat hožea-desire kruňet́evtaught-CONS bőśke.long. ToFrom yazbavthe-beginning-CONS yaLanathe-world heTEMP yedǒvthe-war-CONS UneLight kotoversus JeseDarkness čayQUOT sulea-thing k’yeruňeveto-your-head kay?INT? Nó,Well, yǒynevthe-family-CONS YúkǒYuuko ňaTOPIC yezureyni.the-bad-guys.

    NaOn šo,that, fethis he,TEMP, noževa-need-CONS YúkǒYuuko kǒyt́iconquers liňariḱeva-magical-girl-CONS yerefare,the-proximity, vafor moḱudet́eto-regain virdevpower-CONS kayesome-amount denj́eskelost yǒynevše,her-family, vafor uńetheirs ogevmoney-CONS vuredebetter lobeyond možea-possibility kot́eto-go-to yakanxusavthe-pancake-restaurant-CONS buhaeverything-šothat-moževea-possibility-of-yours-yont́i.eats. Desokoćke,Self-following, yeliňariḱevthe-magical-girl-CONS sowith MomǒMomo iḿej́eskenamed ňaTOPIC sokruňeyneva-classmate-CONS Yúkǒ,Yuuko, nobut šeshe ualso dumpúne,an-angel-like-person šowho moḱaa-time uand moḱaa-time laxoyt́irescues YúkǒYuuko čayQUOT sulea-thing ňaTOPIC irićke,reddening, uand dot́ot́ivcauses-to-battle-CONS kaíto-some-extent meinside yeruňevthe-head-CONS Yúkǒ…Yuuko… no…but… kanxeyvpancakes-CONS buheyall-šothat-moževea-possibility-of-yours-yont́i?eats?

    The Demon Girl Next Door

    When Yuuko Yoshida wakes up one morning to discover that she’s sprouted horns and a tail, she learns something that her mother has been meaning to tell her. You know that battle between the Light and Dark that’s been going on since the dawn of time? Well, Yuuko’s family are the bad guys.

    So now, Yuuko has to defeat a local magical girl to win back some of her family’s vanquished power so they can afford to go to the all-you-can-eat pancake restaurant. And, of course, it turns out that the Magical Girl goes to Yuuko’s school, but Momo’s really nice and keeps rescuing Yuuko, which is pretty embarrassing and leaves Yuuko rather conflicted… but… all you can eat pancakes?

    About kanxey

    Coming up with a word for pancake was hard. Simply calquing pancake or flapjack or any other English-language name for the dish didn’t bring me anything satisfactory, and felt kinda lazy in any case. Then I looked through what pancakes are called in different languages, and I looked at different types of pancakes or pancake-like foods from different cultures, but still none of it really gave me any inspiration. And then it hit me: Kansas, they say, is “flatter than a pancake”. /ˈkænzəs/ → /ˈkænzəz/ → /ˈkænz/ → /ˈkændz/ → /kandz/ — “yup, kanx sounds like it could reasonably be the name of a pancake-like dish in a foreign culture, which could be semantically broadened to refer to all forms of pancake. Let’s go with that!”

    Edit:

    Catching you up to speed on the potentially very revealing hints I gave AernaLingus for Irimǒ-Svepuya: character names (read at your own risk!)

    I. Ć**é is a character named Chika whose family name begins with I. There are literally only two anime characters that match this description, so you could look this up in a character name database and figure the show out basically immediately. But you favor more challenge than that, surely!

    M***ŕe is either Mihari or Matsuri.

    M*ǒ and A*é are one letter off from Mio and Aya.

    N***ye is NOT Natsuki.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtoAnime@hexbear.net•Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 6: revisiting some old unsolved titles, now with extra hints! Will it be too easy‽ Only one way to find out!English
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    12 小时前

    congratulations Well done! This was the one I figured @AernaLingus@hexbear.net would get first.

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    ROḰAVBOX-CONS SVITAWHITE

    KavA-day-CONS anskagunskaone-or-another he,TEMP, ariḱivgirls-CONS 5five ńehkethey-made dećtean-animation sowith bubǒvfun-CONS xayedebigger lobeyond ńeklit́ethey-promised órea-quest vafor hiḱework naon dećte,animation, va,for, kaa-day he,TEMP, moževńea-possibility-of-theirs šehkevit-made-CONS moḱskeagain dećte,an-animation, yénethe-one sowith yegune.the-other. FeThat xiafter žarivyears-CONS 2two he,TEMP, Aoye,Aoi, Śizuké,Shizuka, Emé,Ema, Misé,Misa, uand MidoŕeMidori ňa,TOPIC, yepsevthe-truth-CONS yedoňiyevthe-industry-CONS dećteanimation koto yeruňivńetheir-heads ňa:TOPIC: hiḱework naynot ueven heTEMP bubǒ,fun, hiḱework naynot yohkskeeasy žoif-then uand žo,if-then, sowith šothat vuregood naynot ueven heTEMP vuregood vafor bant́eto-open nódi.doors.

    NaOn šo,that, AoyeAoi ňaTOPIC yeyḱevšeher-job dumas roypedeynea-production-assistant kliňket́iwaits-on še,her, ŚizukéShizuka ňaTOPIC kliňkećkea-waitress kotobetween ňenbeni,polygons, MidoŕeMidori ňaTOPIC ranwithout poĺa,a-book, MiséMisa ňaTOPIC sǒnt́echanged-direction uand šehkedeshe-became remeyneva-visual-artist-CONS SR-e,CGI, sowith šothat EméEma ňaTOPIC menremeynea-key-animator sowith spindogeva-workday-CONS bőśke.long. YezinivńeTheir-lives dumlike yeĺenivńetheir-fantasies kay?INT? Nay!No! NoBut ńenamožet́ethey-prepared naon zídet́eto-display-a-flag svitewhite kay?INT? NayNot la!yet! DećteAnimation ňaTOPIC bonithings fat́edeto-be-done heTEMP uand he,TEMP, fat́evdeto-be-done-CONS braškedemore-wonderfully lobeyond buhe!everything!

    SHIROBAKO

    Once upon a time, five girls made an animated film and it was so much fun that they pledged to get jobs in animation so that someday they could make another film together. Now, two years later, Aoi, Shizuka, Ema, Misa and Midori have learned the truth about the anime industry: it’s not always fun, it’s anything but easy, and having talent isn’t always enough to open the right doors.

    Which is why Aoi’s overwhelmed by her job as a production assistant, Shizuka’s waiting on tables between auditions, Midori’s currently scriptless, Misa’s switched to C.G., and Ema’s working long hours as a key animator. Is it what they imagined? No. But are they ready to give up? Not just yet! Sometimes, when things happen in animation, they can happen in the most wonderful ways!

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Multiple people irl have told me they’re using ChatGPT for therapyEnglish
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    18 小时前

    That’s certainly the pitch, but that’s not really what it is in practice, is it? It responds to your questions completely immediately, at a clear cost to the environment and even people’s access to water and electricity; it has vast amounts of knowledge, which is to say it possesses knowledge that any human could get from just skimming the first few results of a web search and then confidently bullshitting the rest; it never leaves you nor tires of you, and it’s always by your side, in much the same way as an anime body pillow is; and it gets to know you as you tell it things you’d tell nobody else, because you’re feeding your most sensitive information into foreign data centers, where your information might come up in other people’s chats, if it doesn’t literally get leaked without your consent.

    I would see the appeal if it worked exactly as the pitch says, but it doesn’t. People are deluding themselves to their own detriment.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtoAnime@hexbear.net•Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 6: revisiting some old unsolved titles, now with extra hints! Will it be too easy‽ Only one way to find out!English
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    19 小时前

    congratulations Getting a show you haven’t seen is impressive, especially when it’s something that comparatively obscure.

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    HayYes HiḱeyHands tofrom yaRoyčoḱiya!the-Film-Club!

    Pe-1-eA-high-school-first-year-girl Asakusa-MidoŕeAsakusa-Midori ňaTOPIC anime-dećtianime-cartoons :are kyertivloved-things-CONS xaídebigger lobeyond šeshe naon dećteanimation ňaTOPIC "sule"an-abstract-thing :is buhe"everything" čay.QUOT. SulivThings-CONS daŕimanifold tofrom yeruňevšeher-head koto yecigempoĺevše,her-sketchbook, nobut šeshe layet naynot nat́emade yekoḱevthe-move-CONS anskefirst hiḱevwork-CONS anime-dećte,an-anime-cartoon, naon fethat šothat šeshe ňaTOPIC dećteanimation dumas aniḱeone-person-work naynot možea-possibility čay.QUOT. RineA-friend Kanamori-SayakéKanamori-Sayaka ňaTOPIC ariḱea-girl sowith yerokevthe-mind-CONS roynasinćkea-film-producer :is yénske,the-first, šothat nat́eplaced zedesignificance naon yeydrestevthe-genius-CONS Midoŕe.Midori. Ńesint́evThey-saw-CONS hazoske,clearly, šothat sokruňeynevńe,their-classmate, yesnij́iḱevthe-model-CONS biśecharismatic sowith Mizusaki-CubamyeMizusaki-Tsubame iḿej́eskenamed ňaTOPIC hoževšea-desire-of-hers xayebig :is dećkean-animator he,TEMP, ńehkethey-made čoḱiyaa-club naon dećteanimation vafor pset́eto-realize "yalanav"the-world-CONS lobuha"ultimate" tofrom yerokivńe.their-minds.

    Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

    First year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that “concept is everything” in animation. Though she draws a variety of ideas in her sketchbook, she hasn’t taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can’t do it alone. The producer-type Sayaka Kanamori is the first to notice Asakusa’s genius. Then, when it becomes clear that their classmate, charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki, really wants to be an animator, they create an animation club to realize the “ultimate world” that exists in their minds.

    Response to response

    Minori? Mihari? Matsuri?

    One of these is correct, and one of these is one letter off.

    I. Chika and (?) N***ye are the lead characters with the other three being secondary

    I would say all the characters are really about equal, or really if anything it’s the two three-letter characters who regularly steal the spotlight…

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netOPtoAnime@hexbear.net•Guess the anime by its title and plot description in my conlang, part 6: revisiting some old unsolved titles, now with extra hints! Will it be too easy‽ Only one way to find out!English
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    21 小时前

    congratulations Which hints did you use / how did you figure it out?

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    HayYes KyaDivine-Favor sowith yaLanavfathis-World BraškaWonderful

    YaspinavfaThis-day ňaTOPIC vurea-good-deed tot́evto-leave-CONS neňea-little yǒynethe-house čayQUOT Sató-KazumáSatou-Kazuma társulet́a.resolved. NaOn fe,that, šothat KazumáKazuma bviradied ranwithout kede,a-reason, devDUMMY-CONS desokoćke,self-following, šothat yesulevfethat-thing naynot edreske.intelligent. Nó,However, yekulevthe-goddess-CONS ras̋ulećkegreeting nain yámathe-afterlife vafor KazumáKazuma korobet́eoffered moževa-possibility-CONS moḱzinea-second-life nain lanaa-world kumsomehow oor dumas tosuŕoya;a-video-game; sowith šo,that, "áyt́ey"you-accept žo,if-then, yevat́eI-made-yours bonea-thing oor virdavpower-CONS púnska"cool" čayQUOT korobet́eoffered dumas ubone!a-bonus! NayNot može,a-possibility, šothat fethis :is korobevan-offer-CONS zure,bad, kay?INT?

    …No…But KazumáKazuma ňaTOPIC kot́awent-to yalanavthe-world-CONS daranew ranwithout ogevmoney-CONS kaye,any, yavureyvšahis-skills ňaTOPIC haycuíniskey,extremely-average, sowith šothat “yǒbonavša”“his-bonus” ňaTOPIC ranwithout kedevuse-CONS kayeany — naon fe,that, šothat KazumáKazuma tosulet́achose yekule,the-goddess, Akwé,Aqua, de.herself. ŃevThey-CONS 2two kǒyt́iconquer yaDimdayǒvthe-Demon-King-CONS zuraevil čay,QUOT, sowith šothat xiafter heTEMP zinivlives-CONS pekyerckijoyous čayQUOT možea-possibility kum?!how?! Kože, šoIt-looks-like yezbevthe-beginning-CONS yemoževńetheir-possibility vuredebetter ňaTOPIC kiḱe,day-labor, naynot óre.adventure. XiAfter fethis he,TEMP, yelehostevńetheir-disappointment xayt́ivincreases-CONS ani!only!

    KONOSUBA - God’s blessing on this wonderful world!

    Kazuma Satou decides that today is the day to get out of the house for a bit. Since he dies, pointlessly, it’s clearly a bad choice. The goddess who greets him in the afterlife, however, offers him a chance to be reborn in a world not unlike that of a video game, and as a bonus she’ll even throw in a cool item or power! Can’t possibly be a bad choice, right? Except he arrives with no money at all, dead average skills, and his “bonus” isn’t useful at all–since he picked the goddess, Aqua, herself. How are the two of them supposed to defeat the evil Devil King and live happily ever after? Well, for them, it probably starts with day laboring rather than adventuring. And it’s only going to get more disappointing from there!

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Multiple people irl have told me they’re using ChatGPT for therapyEnglish
    41·
    24 小时前

    I genuinely don’t understand how people end up this way about “AI”. Like I just plainly don’t get it. People are capable of understanding how these machines work, including what they do with your input and the privacy ramifications of that, and figuring out through reason, research and experimentation what good use cases for the technology are — I have myself experimented with LLMs on several occasions, and have determined that I have basically no use for the technology at all, and only a few very limited use cases for other ML-based technologies.

    I do not believe myself to be better than other people, nor uniquely capable of making rational decisions about new technologies, and yet here we are: relatives, employers, coworkers and the likes all treating “AI” as a god rather than as a mechanical Turk… But what on Earth drives these people to believe so firmly? We the actors who populate the present day are certainly Children of Troubled Times, it seems.