Let’s not kid ourselves, the Grade 6 lobby is very powerful. What has it done to display its power? Well a few years ago it flexed its muscles and got Pluto demoted as a planet. Why? To make it easier to memorize the planets.
Of course this screwed up that mnemonic I learned years ago to remember the planets in proper order from the sun. It used to be: Man very early made jars stand up nearly perfectly. Where the first letter of the word is the first letter of the planet. E.g. jars is the fifth word and Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun. In place of this mnemonic, I submit : Man very early made jars stand up neatly.
I just worry that Mercury is next to be jettisoned as a planet. It is the smallest and might become known as just a near sun asteroid. But mostly it will be easier to memorize seven planets instead of eight.
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Should the word ass be jettisoned from the other swear words? First of all its just a name for a certain domesticated animal. So it’s not that bad. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, it is only a three letter word and not a four letter word.
Similarly the word bitch is also not that bad and might be removed from the list of swear words. A bitch is just a female dog, after all. Like ass it can be said in polite society when this definition is obvious. But even more obvious, is that it is a five letter word and thus needs to be thrown out as a bad word.
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It annoys me on the Snow Patrol video of Chasing Cars, that the recently added lyrics are not what is being sung. Clearly the singer is going “If I lay here, If I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world.”
But those new printed lyrics at the bottom of the screen, that most YouTube videos have added in the last couple years, replace all the lays with lies. They claim it is “If I lie here, If I just lie here, Would you lie with me and just forget the world.” Has this all been done with artificial intelligence? Does AI think it knows grammar better than the song writer?
If AI thinks it has a better grasp of grammar, then by all means go back to the 1980 song Another Brick in the Wall part 2 by Pink Floyd and correct the grammar. Remember “We don’t need any education.”
Or how about that ‘70s song You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, by BTO. Ain’t ain’t isn’t in this song. It’s haven’t . And that shouldn’t be nothing. It should be anything. Try correcting it with You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet. Good luck having us sing it to the correct timing of the song. I think most humans will default to the original.
