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I love articles and papers like this. They keep illustrating that the people writing them do not get it: Guess who classified the blonde white woman "a dish" o
by notyourday 7y ago
I love articles and papers like this. They keep illustrating that the people writing them do not get it:
Guess who classified the blonde white woman "a dish" on a Mechanical Turk? Do you think it was that Billy Bob from the swamp of Louisianan who makes $12/hour? Because $12/hour is impossible to make classifying images. Or do you think it was a dirt poor Indonesian or Filipino or Chinese or Indian for whom that's the best job he or she could possibly get and that's exactly how they view the world and there are over three billion of them?
- Gigablah 7y agoYour characterization of these nationals aside, what makes you think any of them even know what “dish” means in this context? Sincerely, a Malaysian Chinese who’s seeing this slang for the first time.
- org3432 7y agoDish is almost an archaic term a this point. So either someone's pretty old grandparents are working for MT, or people are translating a term from another language using an old dictionary.
- notyourday 7y agoIt is colonial (British) English. I heard it again recently and it took me a few moments before I recalled it from my childhood. Apparently now "snack" is used the same way. I would guess the classifiers went to school in India or Pakistan.