Midjourney Prompt: Do you use collective nouns?
In Midjourney, we rarely hear people discuss the use cases of collective nouns other than to be more specific when compared to plural words. Collective nouns are briefly mentioned in the Midjourney User Guide. We also know that the Midjourney bot is capable of understanding collective nouns. A collective noun is a term that describes a group of people, animals, or objects. It is a single noun that represents a collection of various things. Examples include a “herd” of animals, a “flock” of birds, and a “team” of people. On the other hand, is it true that their use case is limited to being more specific in describing multiple items? Let’s find out, shall we? We’ll start by comparing the collective nouns for Guinea Pigs and Crows. To simplify things, compare the effect of collective nouns versus the word “many.”
To ensure that the results are more reproducible, I re-prompted each prompt at least four times to reduce the effect of Midjourney V5.2’s randomness (gone are my fast hours!). The collective noun for guinea pigs, according to Wiktionary, is “a group of.” When compared to the word “many,” the result is quite interesting. The guinea pigs will self-organize and fit nicely within the default aspect ratio (1:1), whereas “many” is… too many until some guinea pigs are cropped out of the image frame. Similar words such as “few” and “several” will also keep the guinea pigs within the image frame. Or you can give a number like “5” guinea pigs will also work even though the bot doesn’t know how to count yet.
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