are fashionable again. Colloquialisms are on the rise: members of Gen Z say “yapping” instead of “talking” and trim “delusional” to “delulu”. New words have also become popular. Take “skibidi”, a term popularised by a meme of an animated head singing in a toilet; it means ...
There are so many tiny social cues in real-life human interactions that are not always pattern behaviour or even precedented and are often based on abstract ideas. They may also involve allusion, shared cultural reference and often irony and humour. There is also something called ‘embodied metap...
But despite the sophistication of the latest Large Language Models and language-generating AI tools, there are still predictable areas in which the material they produce is often deficient or defective. Real language innovation does not just involve using the structures of existing languages or adding...