This is a very interesting thread. I've reached the end and I still think that "autocomplete on steroids" does a reasonable job of capturing one of the main issues with LLMs but the discussion here opens il other ways of thinking about it all.
It’s important because if you use whom when you should use who, you come across as both pretentious and stupid. If you use who when you should use whom, almost everyone will give it a pass.
Definitely a pattern emerging with many of these terms. What can it be?
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Oh yes, this looks like the kind of project that only a wazzock, ladging charver or numpty would find pointless.
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Revising Paper 2 with your Year 13s? Have a look at a few of these emag pieces.
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Love the classic 'cheesy peas' framing here - congrats!
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LBC headline: Top British university accused of 'dumbing down' assessments as staff told to 'focus on ideas not grammar' Academics claim changes are “attempts to dumb down assessment in the name of ‘inclusivity’."
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I'm sure we've been here before... like in the June 2024 7702/2 exam paper, for example.
She does it a lot! I remember when she interviewed Nadine Shah - it was like a Geordie Mackem love-in 😂
New episode coming soon - an interview with Daria Bahtina about generational slang, online language and identity.
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The word hoard: Blendings
Brunch, jeggings and cybrarians - in The Word Hoard, Simon Horobin looks at blendings
This was a year in which moderators reported many more concerns about the use of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in the NEA. It is hard to think of any positive use for these in the production of NEA work, because any use of LLM must be factored in to the marking of the work and if any part of the work is not the student’s own, the marks have to be adjusted to take that into account. Any use of AI must be noted on the Candidate Record Forms and quite detailed guidance is offered by JCQ about how teachers and centres should approach this. In brief, any short-term gains that students think they might accrue by outsourcing their thinking or planning to generative AI, will be lost when it comes to assessing the work, and any attempt to use generative AI to write their work will be treated as malpractice.
Put this about LLMs and Generative AI in my NEA report for A Level Eng Lang last year and I will continue to tap the sign...
'The Rise of English' by Rosemary Salomone.
Next challenge: read it for another ten minutes without posting about it on social media.
I know this is a very obvious thing to say but books are good. I've just sat down to read a book about language and I've already noted down about 5 ideas, had my comfortable preconceptions jogged and come up with several more questions. Read a book.
