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In summer I live jn a place with a tiny dialect that like 6000 people still speak and when these reaearchers from X university come around I like making up plausible sounding words and telling them I heard my grandma say it at the hearth when I was a wee child

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No, you're poisoning any research into an endangered language. Do we have to remind everyone of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco?

I have not heard of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco.

Very short version: one autistic US teenager wrote a massive majority of the Scots Wikipedia by copying the English Wikipedia, doing find-and-replace for a limited collection of words and rewriting the rest in a phonetic transcription of Mel Gibson in Braveheart. I'm not going to take a side on the "language or dialect" argument with Scots but it's definitely got it's own specific grammar quirks and ways of speaking that were utterly destroyed by this approach. Scots Wikipiedia had to effectively be rolled back several years and there's some evidence to suggest that in that time AI had ingested the data and caused actual damage to the AI's ability to produce realistic Scots.

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