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From BookSmart Studios, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language.

I am John McWhorter, back on the job for a bit, to talk about something that I really think I need to talk about.

It's about the Ukrainian language, of all things.

Writing for the public means that people misinterpret you now and then, often they do it, almost recreationally. What I've heard over

the years is, you know, all sorts of things. I'm Republican, I'm gay, I'm eugenicist. I don't

think Creoles are real languages. I don't like being black. I never got over being

slapped by a little girl in 1969 after a while. All of it kind of rolls off of you. But the fact is,

this week I have to take exception to some things I've been quoted as saying or writing about

of all things, Ukrainian.

And, you know, God bless Ukrainian, but we've got to clean some stuff up here.

There's this article online.

It's in Ukrainian, but you can easily translate it into English.

And I keep hearing about it from speakers of the language, and many of them are

perplexed, and they have every right to be. This article, from what I can see, it's some kind of the language, and many of them are perplexed and they have every right to be.

This article, from what I can see, it's some kind of AI slop. It's almost convincing, but especially

if, you know, it's me reading it, I can tell that it's an AI version of me. I'm almost

flattered and, you know, kind of bemused, but wow, the stuff it has me saying, it kind of,

it hovers around certain themes in my academic work on language and things that I've given

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