Of course! Probably count it as several because it's been going on for so long.
09.03.2026 21:10
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Of course! Probably count it as several because it's been going on for so long.
I used to use the dodgy example "Mes yeux sont oranges" to demonstrate why orange is invariable. (As well as not being an adjective.) But Mistral's inadvertent example is even better.
chat.mistral.ai/chat/291f564...
This is awful. I am not asking it to explain. I asked it to give me exemplar sentences.
Number 10 is the perfect example of why French does NOT say this.
chat.mistral.ai/chat/291f564...
This is great. Mistral chat says it checks word by word to make sure the words it uses are on the list of the top 2000 most frequent.
chat.mistral.ai/chat/f4884c8...
Except... Guess what?
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I still hear this justification re: AI in classrooms: “It’s out there & we can't be left behind.”
Friendly challenge: which happens more often?
1. Schools regretted waiting too long to adopt a technology.
2. Schools regretted adopting a technology before they fully understood how to use it.
Iron age script we can transliterate and which shows similarities to Basque language...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Apparently we lost to Mexico in the béisbol.
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I got this one! Saw her in 1990. She used the word gusset to great effect.
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The things I asked it to do were dodgy too.
Sentences on members of the family's ambitions: sexist.
Exemplar sentences for son/sa/ses: flawed.
He's also thinking of a version of education where the teacher's words are read aloud from a book and pupils are tested on their recall of them. So VERY much shadows on the wall mistaken for reality
Something very odd about the framing of this story of a woman getting a new job.
search.app/HqvNz
Crikey. That's an interesting version of Plato's cave and how it relates to teaching.
Learning Latin we chanted with the stress on the verb endings.
amO
amAS
amAT
amAMOS
amATIS
amANT
Because the verb was just there in order for the verb endings to be learned.
These are my now Y11s being interviewed.
This is nice:
www.britishcouncil.org/language-ass...
Have swapped from developing spontaneous speaking. To making some correct sentences.
whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2025/12/aqa-...
And it makes up nonsense about gris and rouge.
I tried Mistral chat AI. It thinks un ballon is masc because it belongs to a boy. It thinks son means his, SA means her and ses means its. And it's sexist.
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Oh. That was dull.
This took me too long this morning
Will his post mortem show his bone spurs?
I tried that with chatgpt and Gemini, feeding them texts they created or modified to a certain level. They then identified those texts as a totally different level. And the things they said did or didn't make it a certain level made no sense or weren't even present in the text. I am not convinced!
Aaagh.
Just spotted it thinks
son = his
sa = her
ses = its
It does know how French works. But it would be hopeless for making resources.
