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Can GPT also inform them that "genius" is not an adjective? It's a noun, and the adjective derived from it is "ingenious". No inner peace for me until that's common knowledge.
What a genius idea. But luckily for everyone else, noun-adjuncts exist, so they're OK to keep doing what they're doing.
Clever! But not brilliant ;)
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genius
As a prescriptivist I refuse to accept examples provided - all quotes from modern entertainment media and celebrities - as proof of validity of this grammatical abomination. Please provide examples from pre-internet era.
The original dictionary was printed out and then typed into a computer by some monks ;-)
A few pre-internet examples:
"The indolence of a mind, deluded by the persuasive influence of a present, external, and apparent benevolence, strongly illustrates the genius of a weak and susceptible heart" - Jane Austen, "Sense and Sensibility"
"The genius finger of Liberty has put down and wiped away the stain" from a speech by William Lloyd Garrison in 1858
"The genius work of the builder" - from a book on architecture by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, published in 1854
In the Jane Austen quote that is clearly a noun. Notwithstanding the foregone, I hereby stand corrected. It appears as though the corrosion of grammar began much earlier than I'd have thought.
You're right on both fronts. Personally I'd like to see the first instances of my two most-hated corruptions: "literally
[figurative, obviously non-literal expression]" and "I could care less if[thing I _couldn't_ care less about]".Oh yes - and "could of", while we're at it. There's also one that I've only seen once but that stumped me like nothing I'd seen before: "minus well" - an inexplicable, radioactive mutation of "might as well".
Somebody's gotta give the unrealistic deadlines to the client, amirite?
So true!
The question is how long it takes to recover, sometimes never 😅
I don’t process this kind of stuff immediately and put it in a queue instead. Which pisses my wife off each time 😄 like when I answer in about an hour, “what?”
Basically same
This is why I keep extremely detailed and trivial checklists.
🤣🤣🤣
and then explain to the chief: well I was doing some pretty amazing stuff, when I got this question that took me 15 seconds to answer and 5 hours to get back on the same level that I was before.
Same
You can rewrite it with shorter code, oh, ternary is so underrated:
That solves the problem!
What's up with that?
Now it works, thanks !
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