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Re:ChatGPT Creator Is in Talks for Tender Offer That Would V... by metadat on Thursday January 05, 2023 @09:14PM (#34270080)
Very clever use of the word travail. Was the irony intentional, gwern? (See the tail end of the definitions ;)

travail noun

tra·vail tr-vāl tra-vāl

1a: work especially of a painful or laborious nature : TOIL

1b: a physical or mental exertion or piece of work : TASK, EFFORT

1c: AGONY, TORMENT

2a: LABOR, CHILDBIRTH

Re:ChatGPT Creator Is in Talks for Tender Offer That Would V... by gwern on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:24PM (#34436677)
(Less than intentional, more than accidental. I know the multiple meanings, so it came easily to mind by priming. That sort of unintentional wordplay is a bit of a bad habit, really, when it leads you to use obsolete vocab - the other day someone was asking me if I had made a typo for 'way' when I wrote 'X is in some wise deficient'. I didn't, but it's not like I was trying to be clear either.)