99 word prompt : Old World
August 22, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about old world charm. It can be nostalgic or irreverent. You can invent an “old world,” return to migrant roots or recall ancient times. Go where the prompt leads you!
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“AnnaLisa,” My granddaughter said. “Join us for chocolate cake!”
“Haha u,” She chuckled. “Old.”
“In my day, no child refused this lusciousness!”
“2020?” She chuckled. “Virtual eat. No hydrolos.”
“Can you translate?” I asked my granddaughter.
“Language is now thoughts. Words are a second language to her.”
“Well?”
“Translation: I have a program installed. I can taste the cake as if I’m eating it, but there’s no calories, it’s not 2020, Great Grandma.”
“Whatever happened to tradition?”
“Two words,” My granddaughter said. “Artificial intelligence. She can’t keep up in school without it.”
“Robots by any other name,” I grumbled.
©Joelle (Don’t go there) LeGendre
Yeah…I’m that grandma who needs translation.
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My granddaughter left a text. I asked her to type it in English and not jibberish. She replied, Wha. No quotations, no punctuation, and didn’t finish the word.
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Your reply was what I had originally wrote as a comment then deleted it to keep it short. I don’t understand the non-existence of grammar, correct spelling, punctuation, and as you wrote, the incomplete word. They need to at least understand who they are speaking/texting to.
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Adding the element of AI to shifting language makes it seem like a huge leap and yet it is one we are witnessing. Kind of like in Shakespeare’s day when Middle English transitioned into Modern and he played on the cusp of transition.
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My son used to recite Middle-English poetry. Well spoken, it is beautiful and intonation makes it intelligible to the modern mind. When he told me that Knight was once pronounced as it is still spelled, that was an eye opener.
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If that’s the future you have every right to grumble.
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The road ahead seems to be leading that direction.
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Ha ha ha, I can truly empathize with the Grandma’s plight!
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It is a monstrous thought, “My family is half AI.” 🙂
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