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		seanmcdirmid on Sept 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by ... That would be something completely reasonable to hear in China. Your point? In countries far far away, people tend to abstract entities involved (the Americans did X, not Tesla did X).

olddustytrail on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

My point is that that would be completely reasonable to hear in China, but would sound strange to an American. Likewise, contrariwise.

seanmcdirmid on Sept 27, 2023 | [–]

Ya. It’s normal. In fact, I’m pretty sure linguists have studied this phenomena, but I can’t remember the name for it.

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