If someone made a table and said it was “nearly life-size,” every rational person would say, “So, a smaller table then?” No human is the same size, even within tightly-controlled groups.
If there’s a noticeable difference in scale it’s not “nearly” life-size then.
And the Wikipedia article you reference is about woodcarving. Try this:
There are pictures of what look like statues, but they are considered reliefs because they were carved out of the unmoved rock, rather than built out of displaced stones as a statue would be.
Guys, don’t be in such a rush to defend bad grammar. AI or human, it’s poorly written.
Saying “short people” is waaaaay different than “nearly life-sized”. There is more to size than height. Proportions matter too. Shorter people aren’t also narrower, for example. It makes sense to me, but if they said they found statues of short people I wouldn’t get the same vibe.
I agree that people aren’t all the same height, but there are averages to go off. That’s why things like chairs and doorways work for most people.
The more I look at the photos the more I think they are indeed statues. There is a big ol’ void beneath the dude that suggests he’s standing on dirt, and not carved from a stone that was originally there. They also seem to be two different statues that were placed side by side. You can see a seam in between them. I suspect that they were carved separately, but with the “wall” structures around them with the intent to be put in an alcove or something.
At the end of the day though, this is all kind of petty and overly semantic. I don’t think this was written by AI, and you do. A sample size of 2 isn’t all that great. I just wanted to share some neat stone carving things that were found in Pompeii, not debate about the grammar of the article.
I just wanted to share some neat stone carving things that were found in Pompeii, not debate about the grammar of the article.
Then. Don’t.
Those walls of text are all you, buddy.
While you’re at it, don’t put words in my mouth. I did not say the title was written by AI, I asked if it was or not. It has a “forrest for the trees” style to it commonly attributed to AI-generated writing.
Also, stop framing my saying “short people” as a pejorative instead of the descriptor I clearly used it as.
I clicked on this post because, as a child, I was infatuated with Pompeii for some reason. I had a giant color picture book detailing the history of the people and the culture leading up to the disaster. The title here made me “What?” In my head so many times I thought I’d see if anyone else had the same reaction. Doing so stepped on a lot of toes, apparently.
If someone made a table and said it was “nearly life-size,” every rational person would say, “So, a smaller table then?” No human is the same size, even within tightly-controlled groups.
If there’s a noticeable difference in scale it’s not “nearly” life-size then.
And the Wikipedia article you reference is about woodcarving. Try this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_relief
There are pictures of what look like statues, but they are considered reliefs because they were carved out of the unmoved rock, rather than built out of displaced stones as a statue would be.
Guys, don’t be in such a rush to defend bad grammar. AI or human, it’s poorly written.
Saying “short people” is waaaaay different than “nearly life-sized”. There is more to size than height. Proportions matter too. Shorter people aren’t also narrower, for example. It makes sense to me, but if they said they found statues of short people I wouldn’t get the same vibe.
I agree that people aren’t all the same height, but there are averages to go off. That’s why things like chairs and doorways work for most people.
The more I look at the photos the more I think they are indeed statues. There is a big ol’ void beneath the dude that suggests he’s standing on dirt, and not carved from a stone that was originally there. They also seem to be two different statues that were placed side by side. You can see a seam in between them. I suspect that they were carved separately, but with the “wall” structures around them with the intent to be put in an alcove or something.
At the end of the day though, this is all kind of petty and overly semantic. I don’t think this was written by AI, and you do. A sample size of 2 isn’t all that great. I just wanted to share some neat stone carving things that were found in Pompeii, not debate about the grammar of the article.
Then. Don’t.
Those walls of text are all you, buddy.
While you’re at it, don’t put words in my mouth. I did not say the title was written by AI, I asked if it was or not. It has a “forrest for the trees” style to it commonly attributed to AI-generated writing.
Also, stop framing my saying “short people” as a pejorative instead of the descriptor I clearly used it as.
I clicked on this post because, as a child, I was infatuated with Pompeii for some reason. I had a giant color picture book detailing the history of the people and the culture leading up to the disaster. The title here made me “What?” In my head so many times I thought I’d see if anyone else had the same reaction. Doing so stepped on a lot of toes, apparently.