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'Delve' Is a Giveaway ChatGPT Wrote That Email

• 082349872349872 3y ago
  This sounds as silly a sibboleth as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English ; I suggest we all start using 'delve' with wild abandon before these fools delve too greedily and too deep.
  • BillyTheMage 3y ago
    Maybe it's just because I'm American, but that chart toward the bottom seems all mixed up. On the non-U side, there are fancy words like Knave, Looking Glass, Spectacles, Lavatory; but also non-fancy words like Die, Lunch, and what?. On the U side, again there are both: Cemetary, Serviette, Pardon are all fancy; but Mirror, Glasses, Toilet are all non-fancy. How old is that list, I wonder? I'd also like to point out that Jam and Preserves are not the same thing, and usage of one over the other is not a matter of fanciness.
    • 082349872349872 3y ago
      > How old is that list, I wonder? 1950s — and I'm pretty sure Miss Mitford was having everyone on.