Grammar aside, it’s an odd choice to fill up half the page with 747s if you want to showcase the variety of commercial passenger airplanes.
I’m more annoyed at the lack of anything prop.
Not everything is a international long haul.
It genuinely took me a while to see what was wrong with it, my brain was autocorrecting it
Many modern theories in cognitive science posit that the brain’s objective is to be a kind of “prediction machine” to predict the incoming stream of sensory information from the top down, as well as processing it from the bottom up. This is sometimes referred to through the aphorism “perception is controlled hallucination”.
So human thought is … text prediction?
That sounds extremely interesting, i gotta look into that when i have more time
Even after reading your comment, it took me three more tries to see it! Wild.
See, I thought it was mildly infuriating because the images aren’t “many types of airplanes”, they’re only a few types of airplanes repeated at different sizes or different angles.
“They are many words.”
[Page with the word “word” in 3D at 10 different angles and rotations.]
They* are many words
So embarrassing… Fixed.
My brain autocorrected this for me, and I was confused why you were posting it at first.
This reminds me, there is a thing that the human mind can read horribly spelled words — as long as the general idea of it is the same (most of the time the end and beginning). I would try to find an example, but it’s late and my ability to form proper search queries os diminished.
Just invret two letters in a wrod that are not the first or the last. You will read just fine and prboably not even notice. Like this cmoment you just read
Prboably got me, didn’t notice at all until re-reading. The rest I read just fine but easily noticed.
The only one I didn’t notice was wrod.
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they are so many planes
Disregarding the bad grammar, the picture shows a terrible variety of airplanes. They’re all some sort of commercial passenger jet.
It’s like saying, “there’s so many kinds of motorcycles!” while showing only various Harleys. Let’s just ignore the dirt bikes, sport bikes, and everything in between.
What’s wrong? They are many different kinds of airplanes. Why are they airplanes and not people, though?
Using “they” when you haven’t yet established the group you are referring to in context feels weird and kinda wrong, especially if it’s about a group of inanimate objects. It really looks like the word should have been “there”, but they just mistyped and then didn’t catch the error in the editing process or didn’t bother to correct it.
That’s what I think is wrong here. I’m not 100% sure that this grammatically wrong, but it sure feels like it. Might depend on what the page before this one said.
It’s in a book for 5 years old to learn to read. It’s supposed to be simple words in simple sentences. This is not it.
This is the only post in the entire thread attempting to parse the grammar.
It feels wrong because as you pointed out, as text, the pronoun “they” has no antecedent. Who are they?
But there is a picture, too. That’s them!
It’s not just type, it’s typography. You have to analyze the grammar of something like one page of a picture book or a movie poster or advert in its context.
I think he’s wrong
Should be “There”
TIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.
No, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons
“Aeroplane” is fancypants English
Brought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.
How do you know we’re not secretly saying “gaol” but you’re hearing it as “jail”?
The issue is on both pages. Lack of knowledge of English on one, and lazy copy/pasta of similar airplanes on the other.
This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these at a young age.
Don’t try to redirect stupidity from people to computers. We’re more than capable of doing stupid things without the help of our AI overlords.
Damn right I are
No. AI wouldn’t mess up like that. It could spew other kinds of shit, but with excellent syntax. It’s far more likely for humans to make mistakes like that.
The good thing is: This type of book is read by parents to their 1-3 year old kids. You show the pictures and can filter weird sentences. This is not a book a 9 year old is going to read 😉
This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It’s a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading
thesethey at a young age.FTFY
They is for thorses
Is the issue that all the plains are basically the same kind of wide and narrow-body passenger jets? Like there is hardly any variety in the images?
the issue is with the text.
it says “they are …” instead of “there are …”
I had to look a second time. My brain just auto-corrected that.
holy crap. I must have read it 3-4 times, STILL found nothing wrong, so I went to the comments. It took this comment train for me to see it, meaning you had to tell me literally what it was.
Human brains are so neat sometimes.
Also airplanes instead of aeroplanes
(Which is correct so there’s nothing wrong with that)
Buddy, we are talking about planes. But no, that isn’t the issue.
They are so many good kind of AI written books nowdays
Funny enough, I bet an Ai would not make that mistake.
Just like a human it really depends on what you feed your AI as training data.
Probably went like: There are->There’re->They’re->They are
Their’re
*you’re
you’re mom
No, I’m dad.
There are many kinds…
They are is incorrect, and the word “so” is superfluous.
Spoken like a true Grammarly AI tool for all those extra words.
They’re practically useless if you’re going for nice prose and emphasis…
There are many kinds of airplanes!
There are sooooooo~ many kinds of airplanes! 🛬🛫 🛩️✈️
They are. What’s the problem?
Like honestly, it’s a simple present tense sentence, talking about those airplanes right next to it. They are so many kinds!
I guess there’s 2 things. One is people being picky about ‘They are’ vs. ‘There are’ and the second is that they’ve probably not shown a very wide variety
My subconscious autocorrected that the first time I read it. It was only after reading your comment and going back to look again that I realized they had not written “There are”.
I see it. “There are” and “they are” are different sentences with slightly different meanings. Writing this way is correct and I think you’ll find it’s common in older children’s books and even adult books. Tolkien wrote often in this way that sounds clunky to the modern ear. I read a lot of older writing so to me it sounds more familiar and correct even.
Who is so many airplanes?
Look in your left hand.
But they aren’t, then. That’s one kind of plane, which technically isn’t even called an airplane, because it’s a jet plane.
Yeah, okay, clever. All different brands and configurations.
