The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce
The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as 'A1,' like the steak sauce | TechCrunch
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28070204
As Trump cabinet member activities go, sporadically mispronouncing some acronym is very low on my list of concerns.
We'll, it is THE acronym, not just some acronym.
But you're right, the other things happening are on another level...
For info, AI is an initialism, not an acronym. Acronyms are pronounced like words (NASA, NATO), whereas initialisms are just the letters (AI, FBI).
Wikipedia has that this is not the common-use definition of "acronym", though some argue for it. In the common-use sense, an initialism is just one type of acronym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
For some, an initialism or alphabetism, connotes this general meaning, and an acronym is a subset with a narrower definition: an acronym is pronounced as a word rather than as a sequence of letters. In this sense, NASA /ˈnæsə/ is an acronym but USA /juːɛsˈeɪ/ is not.
The broader sense of acronym, ignoring pronunciation, is its original meaning and in common use. Dictionary and style-guide editors dispute whether the term acronym can be legitimately applied to abbreviations which are not pronounced as words, and they do not agree on acronym spacing, casing, and punctuation.
Although, when that pronunciation indicates that have no idea what it means...
Yeah, mispronouncing AI is strange, but what about her wanting to use AI to educate first graders, even preschool kids?
I just... I don't know what good can come of that.
I always read it as AL, like Albert.
I know a guy named AL and I read his name as Ai every time.
I blame Stone Cold Steve Austin; probably gave her one too many stunners back in her WWE days.
"Those guys are really investing $500bn in datacenters for steak sauce? Makes sense I guess"
Her, probably
Stupid kids make stupid Republicans for life
A1 is not a steak sauce, just like how ketchup is not a steak sauce.
Asking for A1 to put on a steak is an insult to the cook/chef that made it.
Horse shit
People like what they like, it isn't an insult
Ever had steak diane? Steak au poivre?
How about gremolata, chimmichuri, creamed mushrooms, caramelized onions, wine and balsamic reductions?
Hell, just salt and fucking pepper alter the flavor of the beef.
No need for food snobbery at all.
The only problem with people using bottled sauces is that it may not be equally effective for their needs if it isn't the right cut of steak. An a1 type of sauce gives a different end flavor on something like a rib eye than a filet because the fat levels and "beefiness" aren't the same.
Now, me? If I want steak, I want steak, not sauces, so the most I'm going to put on top is something like a pan sauce where I deglaze with bourbon and let it reduce enough to nix the alcohol flavor but still pick up the fond.
But that's me. I ain't mad at anyone having food the way they like it; might not be willing to buy a filet for someone that insists on well done for everything, but I'll be glad to hook them up with a cut that works when well done so that I'm not wasting money on something they won't enjoy as much.
I mean, chef cousin bubba puts it in his own steak too, so it's probably ok
A little bit of that and Heinz 57 in burgers is spectacular, though. It also helps makes a relative's overdone entree tolerable.
Someone must have told the meathead that AI was the secret sauce.
More than likely someone who has never heard the term, only read it, and probably recently. Great...
why am I not surprised?
oh linda, shouldve stayed out after your stint in trumps first term.
Personally I think we should ban all ambiguous characters from API keys and acronyms
