Comment by dash2

Comment by dash2 21 hours ago

9 replies

Mm. I'm a bit sceptical of the historical expertise of someone who thinks that "Who art Henry" is 19th century language. (It's not actually grammatically correct English from any century whatever: "art" is the second person singular, so this is like saying "who are Henry?")

joshuakoehler 21 hours ago

As a reader of a lot of 17th, 18th, and 19th century Christian books, this was my thought exactly.

  • haensi 2 hours ago

    What kind of Christian books do you read?Jonathan Edwards, John Bunyan, J.C. Ryle, C.H. Spurgeon?

  • evolve2k 3 hours ago

    That text was from v0, the responses improved from there.

    • freedomben an hour ago

      That text was from the example prompt, not from the models response

auraham 21 hours ago

Can you elaborate on this? After skimming the README, I understand that "Who art Henry" is the prompt. What should be the correct 19th century prompt?

  • canjobear 21 hours ago

    "Who art Henry?" was never grammatical English. "Art" was the second person singular present form of "to be" and it was already archaic by the 17th century. "Who is Henry?" would be fine.

  • andai 20 hours ago

    Who art thou?

    (Well, not 19th century...)

    • geocar 10 hours ago

      The problem is the subjunctive mood of the word "art".

      "Art thou" should be translated into modern English as "are you to be", and so works better with things (what are you going to be), or people who are alive, and have a future (who are you going to be?).

      Those are probably the contexts you are thinking of.