[–] alex_young 11mo ago ↗ In case anyone else is wondering - Robin is the ex-wife of another prominent linguist, George Lakoff.Somehow GPT-5 got this badly wrong when I first asked: Yes — George Lakoff and Robin Lakoff are related. They are siblings. Er, no. They were married once and divorced 50 years ago according to their Wikipedia pages.
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Somehow GPT-5 got this badly wrong when I first asked:
Er, no. They were married once and divorced 50 years ago according to their Wikipedia pages.