A lifeform is a type of thing that is living or alive. A languageform isn't alive in traditional sense but lives using language. LLM (Large Language Model) would be a languageform instead of lifeform.
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Example: "He insisted that words have one true meaning—not because he'd studied linguistics, but because language orthodoxy had made fixed reference feel like common sense. The orthodoxy's power is making a theory of language feel like language itself."
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Get the Language premium mug.A person (usually white) who learns languages for fun rather than by necessity and berates immigrants who learn languages because they need to. Despite the fact that language tourists have a very shallow grasp on the languages they visit, they tend to dismiss the immigrants who actually need to learn complex grammar and vocabulary in a colonial environment instead of learning two sentences for entertainment.
this girl told my immigrant friend that he should improve his french, she thinks it's easy because she's a butcherer of 5 languages, what a fucking language tourist .
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often that person will act like they actually understood what was said rather than say they used a translator
often that person will act like they actually understood what was said rather than say they used a translator
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