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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by scandox on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:34AM (#21352721)
Well "he landed the deal" implies a score or a hit. So to say they "landed" the planes could vaguely make sense but it is hardly good English. They might have been thinking of "grounded"?
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Re:Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching... by randcraw on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:04PM (#21356329)
'Grounded' means the plane could not take off. It was on the ground and must remain there.

Landing a deal (or a fish) is like landing a plane. A human acts to cause a desired outcome. Unlike forcing a pilot to involuntarily land a plane, the perspective of the fish as involuntarily being forced to land is not a necessary inference for this use of 'land'.

Geez, language can be subtle.

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