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Humanities and numbers
Mar. 2nd, 2023 04:37 pmExcerpt from the top paragraph of a New Yorker article "The End of the English Major":
"From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight. Records indicate that the number of graduated language and literature majors decreased by roughly half, as did the number of history majors. Women’s studies lost eighty per cent..."
You can tell it's written by an English Major graduate, can't you?
Alternatively, every single day you get to struggle through sentences like like "13 years ago [etc]" or "For 35 launches, 4 major KPIs increased 25-35% [etc]" Allegedly, stuff like that gets written by people who studies with English majors around them as teachers and graders.
Maybe, chatbots do have a chance of being the force for good, after all. At least, in the realm of language use. Just don't let them communicate with modern people, feed them some literature instead.
"From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight. Records indicate that the number of graduated language and literature majors decreased by roughly half, as did the number of history majors. Women’s studies lost eighty per cent..."
You can tell it's written by an English Major graduate, can't you?
Alternatively, every single day you get to struggle through sentences like like "13 years ago [etc]" or "For 35 launches, 4 major KPIs increased 25-35% [etc]" Allegedly, stuff like that gets written by people who studies with English majors around them as teachers and graders.
Maybe, chatbots do have a chance of being the force for good, after all. At least, in the realm of language use. Just don't let them communicate with modern people, feed them some literature instead.
