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Benjamin Storme

@bstorme.bsky.social
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Linguist at Leiden University

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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I have been informally testing chatbots on what one could call the "Joey Starr test", i.e the ability to "verlanize" French words ("cité"-"téci"). ChatGPT still fails on some hard cases. But Mistral unfortunately does much worse. Look how it confidently says that "ckan" is informal for "Franck"
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Ma publication dans "the Conversation" sur l'écriture inclusive (theconversation.com/lecriture-in...) m'a valu ma première qualification de "wokiste" ("immonde wokiste"). L'ironie, c'est que le mot "wokiste" est lui-même une forme d'écriture inclusive (forme neutre). "Wokard" serait plus adapté.
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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
The way we use words says quite a lot about who we are. Look at the frequency of use of function words such as 'and', 'of' by French play writers Molière and Corneille: each author has it own particular way of using these words - a kind of lexical footprint. Data from www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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