Possibly because there’s such scant linguistic evidence for the (undoubtedly many) pre-PIE languages in Europe? It’s hard to study something that didn’t leave behind much writing, if any. Basque being a notable exception to that, of course.
With that said, most historical linguists would probably kill for more data on extinct pre-PIE languages.
Greek has several things in favor of it being conservative: 1. It’s been a written language for longer than most other languages 2. It’s been the language of empires 3. It’s been a liturgical language
With that said, I find Modern Greek speakers tend to overstate the similarities between Modern and Ancient Greek. The spelling is conservative but pronunciation is very different and conjugation/declension patterns have been significantly simplified.
Still there’s a lot more intelligibility than between English and Old English for example, which is a good example of how much can change in about 1000 years. Similar with French or Romanian and Latin.
People noticed. They just didn’t come up with a theory of a common ancestor language. Or, in some cases, they assumed other European languages were originally heavily debased forms of Latin/Greek.
Lmao, imagine doing all this instead of just centering the div yourself. This explains why everyone I work with that uses llms is slow af. Its all pseudo-productivity, its kinda similar to how people sit around customizing their nvim config feeling productive but not actually accomplishing anything. The difference is you pay money for this junk.
Imagine being so far behind in your own industry that you think LLMs can only be used for centering divs.
You know what though? It makes sense seeing that you're so aggressively short-sighted that you posted a comment claiming LLMs are useless on a thread about them being critical enough to shape economics and geopolitics in real time.
And by the way, you have no clue just how bad lawyers can be at their own job. If my first lawyer had used an LLM to review his writing, he would have at least caught that he didn't get my name or address right. He also likely would have caught that you having sole custody of your child means you don't pay the other spouse child support. The genius got it backwards.
I think that is how the smarter agents do things? Just like Claude/ChatGPT sometimes does a web search they can do other tool calls instead of just making a statistical guess. Of course it doesn’t always make the bright choice between those options though…
They will also lie and produce output saying it is based on tool execution, without having actually used the tool.
Yes, another layer to cross-check, say, “in kubectl logs I see …” with an actual k8s tool call can help, that is, when the cross-check layer doesn’t lie.
For the time being, IMHO, human validation in key points is the only way to get good results. This is why the tools make experienced people potentially a lot more efficient (they are quick to spot errors/BS) and inexperienced people potentially more dangerous (they’re more prone to trusting the responses, since the tone is usually very professionally sounding).
I thought courts martial and secretaries general (and Knights Templar/Hospitaller, et al) were Anglo-Norman/French borrowings. Do you have any examples of native English phrases following that pattern?
A relative presided over a couple of court martials (1) in the past. Modern usage has largely disconnected it from the past, grammatically (if that is even a thing, except to the true minutaephile)!
There are plenty of unvaccinated people this side of the border and it seems to be a growing trend. If the government is going to intern people in close quarters then they should probably make sure to vaccinate them. I would not be optimistic about the level of medical care sick patients will have access to in this scenario.
With that said, most historical linguists would probably kill for more data on extinct pre-PIE languages.