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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by astrange on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:38AM (#26366301)
It's because the name of the moon is "The Moon", not "Moon". I think SF writers sometimes pretend it's called "Luna" so it'll have a more interesting name.
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by nicoburns on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:47AM (#26366344)
It is "la luna" in spanish. So I don't think SF writers are pretending.
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by narag on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:01AM (#26366410)
Spanish, that's right, but I guess they mean Latin.
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by dTal on Saturday March 06, 2021 @07:13AM (#26366894)
They pretend it will be called Luna (in English), because "The Moon" is a silly name when you routinely travel to lots of moons.
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by snypher on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:46AM (#26373491)
It's name is Moon, and it's referred to as "the moon".
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by d0mine on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:12AM (#26366454)
It is Luna (Луна) in Russian
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by dotancohen on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:43AM (#26366555)
And other well-accepted sci-fi terms are of Slavic origin as well. Robot, for one, and that term actually transferred to colloquial language.
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Re:Do Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is? by ralphm on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:23AM (#26366705)
Except that Luna in Slavic and Latin just share the same ancestor in PIE.
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