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I do like the Potemkin Village metaphor for things like the website in question. Given how little effort something like this takes, I imagine there are a lot mo

I do like the Potemkin Village metaphor for things like the website in question. Given how little effort something like this takes, I imagine there are a lot more of them than I've considered before, and given the way search engines operate and index, and LLMs scrape relatively indiscriminately, it seems to have implications that go beyond Google's stupid summarized answers at the top of the results page.

brookst 1mo ago
I mean, are you fooled by these websites? Training corpuses (corpii?) have always had lies, propaganda, derangement, you name it.
- dlenski 1mo ago
  > corpuses (corpii)? The Latin plural of corpus is corpora. It gets used a lot in linguistics articles, perhaps other fields as well.
  - eru 1mo ago
    Indeed, and I've come across it even in pre-AI times. However given that in English we don't care eg about Latin cases, I don't think we should care all that much about Latin plurals. So corpuses is fine by me.
    - jfengel 1mo ago
      Both "corpora" and "corpuses" are correct. Sometimes we import the plural as an irregular plural in English; sometimes we don't. "Corpora" is common enough that you're not wrong to use it. "Corpuses" (the regularized English plural) gets enough use that it's valid. "Corpi" gets used as a hypercorrection, but it's deprecated in favor of the two previous. "Corpii", as suggested above, is right out.
      - eru 1mo ago
        Or, my suggestion to use corpuses instead of corpora was pure prescriptivism, yes. I often use corpora, because it's what's common enough. And I sometimes use nonsense plurals like octopodes just to be silly.
    - dlenski 1mo ago
      > However given that in English we don't care eg about Latin cases, I don't think we should care all that much about Latin plurals. So corpuses is fine by me. The reason I replied is because the OP appeared to be interested in the most accepted or used plurals for this word.
- MPSimmons 1mo ago
  No, and I don't think they're meant to fool humans.

brookst 1mo ago

I mean, are you fooled by these websites? Training corpuses (corpii?) have always had lies, propaganda, derangement, you name it.

dlenski 1mo ago
> corpuses (corpii)? The Latin plural of corpus is corpora. It gets used a lot in linguistics articles, perhaps other fields as well.
- eru 1mo ago
  Indeed, and I've come across it even in pre-AI times. However given that in English we don't care eg about Latin cases, I don't think we should care all that much about Latin plurals. So corpuses is fine by me.
  - jfengel 1mo ago
    Both "corpora" and "corpuses" are correct. Sometimes we import the plural as an irregular plural in English; sometimes we don't. "Corpora" is common enough that you're not wrong to use it. "Corpuses" (the regularized English plural) gets enough use that it's valid. "Corpi" gets used as a hypercorrection, but it's deprecated in favor of the two previous. "Corpii", as suggested above, is right out.
    - eru 1mo ago
      Or, my suggestion to use corpuses instead of corpora was pure prescriptivism, yes. I often use corpora, because it's what's common enough. And I sometimes use nonsense plurals like octopodes just to be silly.
  - dlenski 1mo ago
    > However given that in English we don't care eg about Latin cases, I don't think we should care all that much about Latin plurals. So corpuses is fine by me. The reason I replied is because the OP appeared to be interested in the most accepted or used plurals for this word.
MPSimmons 1mo ago
No, and I don't think they're meant to fool humans.