Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence

[facthunter]

Mispronunciations.   Nev

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, facthunter said:

Mispronunciations.   Nev

I was going to argue the toss with Nev, but then I realised that I have often said that language is an evolving thing and with it speech. Therefore I must concede that nowadays the noun is mispronunciations, but hold that the verb is mispronounce.

[red750]

In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either homographs—words that mean different things but have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation)—or homophones—words that mean different things but have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling). Using this definition, the words row (propel with oars), row (a linear arrangement) and row (an argument) are homonyms because they are homographs (though only the first two are homophones). So are the words see (vision) and sea (body of water), because they are homophones (though not homographs).

 

I'm going to read a book tonight.  I read in yesterday's paper...           homographs

It's time to sow the seed.              The pig farmer bought a new sow.  homographs

It's time to sow the seed.               Sew a button on it.                            homophones

 

On the subject of the topic, AI, closed captions AI regularly gets it horribly wrong.

[pmccarthy]

It annoys me when people write I lead the cow rather than I led the cow when it is past tense.