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Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by everforward on Saturday November 14, 2026 @10:53AM (#50498013)
My understanding (which may be wrong) is that English is best but most of the Romance languages do okay because English has borrowed from them so much.

I think you only start getting seriously bad impacts in non-Romance languages where they have their own alphabet, or use the English alphabet phonetically causing letters to appear next to each other that never would in English. E.g. in English "qu" is a pretty obvious token, you rarely see a Q without a U after it. Happens all the time in anglicized Middle Eastern words, though. Quran is like a whole other thing, you'd almost always expect another vowel after qu, not a consonant.

Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by poopingatwork on Saturday November 14, 2026 @12:29PM (#50498873)
I've heard English is one of the most expressive languages, but is complex to learn due to absorbing words and ideas from so many other languages. Lots of contradictions, situational rules, and unwritten rules (like the order of adjectives).
Re:Generative AI uses more energy on non-English text by nmstoker on Sunday November 15, 2026 @06:19AM (#50506059)
Given the complexities involved, maybe we should be impressed by someone who masters even one!