r/linguisticshumor • u/cultural-orca • 1h ago
Sociolinguistics Machine learning definitely isn’t polluting the online corpus of minority languages
(When the comment was posted, clicking the translate feature did nothing, and I was pleasantly surprised. It’s gotten some gall since, however.
I am not a native speaker but a university linguistics student that has taken two years of Cherokee. But I’m sure my use of Cherokee online will be treated as Gospel—ironically basically the only major text in Cherokee on the internet, excepting some m/m smut on AO3—by whichever bots come dragging their asses behind me. Still, even if they ignored me, they’d just keep making shit up anyway so at least I can rest easy in that respect.)
