• n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Great comparison, a dialect used by millions of people to a dead language. It really shows how much you care about the people who speak that dialect…

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      AIs are trained on what is written in the Internet. Latin is not spoken, it’s written. But even then, it’s rarely used. African american is a dialect, it’s only present in speech.

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        3 months ago

        You need to get out more. I totally get that you would think that’s the case, but only if you’re not exploring parts of the internet outside your bubble. It’s absolutely written.

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        There are actually quite a few books written in AAVE…the earliest I’m aware of is their eyes were watching god, from the 1930s. The Color Purple, Beloved, The Sellout, the books of Chester Himes…