Re:Where the Goblins Came From
by gizajob on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:07AM
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I’m a British English speaker and find the use of cliched American idioms really quite disgusting. Don’t want to think about about ballparks, home runs, smoking guns, going all in, touchdowns or hitting it out the park.
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Re:Where the Goblins Came From
by weitendorf on Thursday April 30, 2026 @04:38AM
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It actually probably wouldn’t be too expensive or difficult to finetune those sayings out of default behavior if it were made accessible to you, you could even automate most of the relabeling by having the model come up with a list of idioms and appropriate replacement terms so it calls eg cookies biscuits or removes references to baseball. Absolute bollocks they don’t offer that as a simple option anymore
Should send over a geezer to give them a slap.
Re:Where the Goblins Came From
by walthamstow on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:40AM
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In my user instructions I always have a point to "always use British English" which seems to reduce Americanisms. I am yet to see Claude give me a "back of the net!" though, sadly.
Crikey, you are correct!
Re:Where the Goblins Came From
by DharmaPolice on Thursday April 30, 2026 @06:50AM
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Ironically (or not) I've seen smoking gun attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in a Sherlock Holmes story. (It was smoking pistol in that story). Even if that's rubbish, I think that one is common across the English speaking world. The baseball/American football stuff is a bit different. In the commonwealth we might say "Hit for six" instead of hitting it out of the park. There are a bunch of other ones related to sports more common in England like snookered, own-goal, red card, etc.