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   B Kahn (bkahn@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 03:56:00 JST B Kahn

   It has been many months since I tested anything on ChatGPT. But it occurred to me to ask if it could generate text containing all the phonemes of American English. So I asked, and it did. It offered to "spotlight" the vowels and consonants. I said yes. It listed examples.

   Here's one sample:

   /i/ – Eliot, heirs, shrill

   For you non-linguists, this /i/ represents the 'long e' sound in "see". So using the the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) , the word "see" would be written /si/.

   Hmm. 'Eliot' has that 'long e' sound. But 'heirs' doesn't, nor does 'shrill.'

   Two wrong out of three? Can't recommend that to my students.

   I checked some other parts and the error rate was about the same. As is often reported, it's faster to do it yourself than to correct the errors the bot makes. And for non-native speakers it's a potential nightmare. Oh well.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 03:57:52 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @bkahn The AI forced on us at the top of Google told me yesterday that LL is pronounced /j/ after vowels in French. No, it’s after i only. And it can’t even occur after consonants. Lying little shit.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 06:26:19 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @bkahn :-)

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     B Kahn (bkahn@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 06:26:21 JST B Kahn

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe

     Lying little shit is the perfect phrase--and it made me laugh which is always welcome in these perilous times. Thanks!