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> I scroll up a bit to reread ChatGPT's analysis, and I realize it mentions "transliteration". I have no idea what that word means, so I look it up. How?

• Avicebron 10mo ago
  In this case the "writing system" is the set of typos that would occur when someone with an English and Korean keyboard layout forgets to switch off English and keystrokes what they expect would be the Korean. "Midjourney" is "alemwjsl" in that typo writing system
  • floren 10mo ago
    No I mean how do you never come across "transliteration", is that really such an unusual word?
    • Avicebron 10mo ago
      I don't think so, but I grew up before cell phones and AI so I had to learn how to read. I'll leave the explanation for the rest who skip over the guillemet at the beginning like I did.
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    • jamilton 10mo ago
      Yeah, I think it's an uncommon word. It's not a concept that would come up for most American English speakers, unless you're in a community that uses a language with another writing system (I think I first encountered it in a synagogue with Hebrew) or you're learning such a language. I think I've maybe occasionally seen "translit." in text used to mark that the following is transliterated, but I could see that being easily glossed over.
    • andoando 10mo ago
      I only know it because Im bilingual
    • bigstrat2003 10mo ago
      Not imo. It's a word that I would expect any adult who finished college to have seen before.
• _nivlac_ 10mo ago
  Everyone has gaps in their knowledge which can be things that "should be obvious" to others. If someone doesn't know something, they either forgot or haven't learned it yet! I appreciated the author's honesty here.
  • allarm 10mo ago
    Would you appreciate the author’s honesty if he said that he didn’t know what 2 + 2 was?
• N_Lens 10mo ago
  But he's paid much less than what he makes companies, and his work is important and mysterious, don't you know?