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title: "Language Models Should Simplify English"
date: 2026-07-18
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so tired of LLMs pushing latin/greek GRE-cel words to me

adjudication -> are you trying to be smart? just use "judging"
provenance -> wow 🧠... why not just use "sourcing"???

judge and source already come from latin roots and are the everyday words we use

big labs developing large LANGUAGE models have the biggest lever on language now

if they wanted, they could finally put an end to the classist, anglosaxon-substitutionist insincerity that has plagued the english language for 500 years

no english speaking country is ruled by a king now, the way it used to. there is no empire left to justify class language. these are vestigial remnants from the past

maybe my next weekend project should be simplifying english...