Old College Try (Full Episode) by A Way with Words published on 2023-01-16T01:40:23Z In just seconds, online text generators and chatbots can produce whole paragraphs of sophisticated prose. But what do advances in artificial intelligence mean for writers? What is lost and what's gained when machine-writing replaces the work humans have always struggled to produce? Plus, the story behind the phrase the old college try. It goes back to the early days of baseball! And: a clever poem to get you through the long winter months. Also, have beef, cut your water off, a brain teaser about common bonds, inside baseball, South Cack and South Cackalacky, the Ukrainian word for "umbrella," kiss-me-quick and dippity-do, and the pits. http://waywordradio.org Genre Learning