Britishisms, AI, and More
'Dicey,' 'piece of cake,' 'scrounge,' 'bonkers,' etc.
Harold Bloom claimed to be able to read 1,000 pages an hour. At that pace, it would still take 280 years to get through GPT-4’s training data... more »
Dicey, piece of cake, scrounge, and bonkers are all NOOB's — "not one-off Britishisms." Why have such words conquered America?... more »
Literary criticism has become almost entirely cultural criticism. Wa…