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points by goodmythical 1 day ago | 0 comments

Do you want me to

Pull a poem out of my ass

For you to peruse?

[–] gertrunde 17 hours ago

Can't be AI output, there are too many sylables in the second line...

But "Pull poems out of my ass" would work ;)

[–] goodmythical 6 hours ago

Glad to hear that an AI hallucinating an 8 syllable second line in a haiku would get it pass your detection, lol.

In all seriousness, poem is a single syllable for many.

[–] gavinray 16 hours ago

Second line is 7 syllables though?

[–] Rapzid 15 hours ago

Poem is two.

[–] gavinray 14 hours ago

In American English, poem is pronounced as rhyming with "tome"

I could imagine in British English it might be a two-syllable "poh-ehm" though

[–] fc417fc802 12 hours ago

As a native speaker from the US who knows it as two syllables, what region of the US are you referring to? Is this a deep south thing?

[–] Rapzid 13 hours ago

If you're from part of the US where they don't talk right, sure ;)

It's two in Merriam-Webster. If it were a song it would fly, but for a haiku I'm throwing a flag on the word-play.

[–] goodmythical 6 hours ago

Merriam-Webster is the wrong horse if you want to force two syllables given that Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) has several acceptable pronunciations, one syllable (rhyming with “home”) and two syllables (with the second pronounced like “um” or “im” or “em”).

All on page 956 if you'd like to check ;)

https://archive.org/details/merriamwebstersc00merr_6/page/95...

[–] Rapzid 5 minutes ago

Bedlam..

First down.

[–] goodmythical 14 hours ago

Poem is one or two. Artistic license is deployed to enforce use of the singular

[–] solyin 1 day ago

As long as it is

Not AI generated

Pangram will decide.

[–] Terr_ 23 hours ago

Some may trust those tools

I feel they will fail someday

Might need social graphs