On: All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

[laurieg]

Learning a second language is a fantastic way to feel many aspects of being a child again. Having to deal with frustration. Understanding a situation but not be able to fully take part. Being able to communicate but only with the blunt instrument of the words you know.

[veltas → laurieg]

That's how I feel right now talking in my only language of English.

[wartywhoa23 → veltas]

Yep. So many people have been drifting away into some kind of parallel reality where language is seemingly the same, yet transmits no meaning between our diverging realities.

[mitxela → wartywhoa23]

Language that looks superficially normal but transmits no meaning is called "generative AI output"

[wartywhoa23 → mitxela]

That too, but I originally meant literal human output, as in loss of ability to convey meaning with words in communication between people, no AI involved.