I thought this was a kinda interesting question because the answer must be obvious to pretty much everyone (sorry, OP) yet it's extremely difficult to find actual evidence to back that up:
The term "curry English" is used in this video, and it concerns a certain way of speaking English in the Indian subcontinent. Wikipedia does not mention it. A search in Google Books yields nothing (curry English).
Wiktionary shows several definitions of "curry", but none of those permits to deduc...
@Robusto Tbh, I didn't look at the linked video or whatever it was
I think that the question was asked with such naivety (eg apparently, "curry English" could be derogatory) that people had a hard time seeing it as a question about English and not something with a secret political agenda
Term of the day: Bayesian ghost - "..we hypothesized that activation of the sensorimotor system first predicts the occurrence and then accompanies the appearance of the Bayesian ghost"
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@Laurel You've hit on the central problem with all sites on SE. Not all creative writing can have a reference. Thank goodness. We just have to rely on the internalized swaths of English English speakers possess. A recent post of ELL questioned the idiomatic nature of the term "oblique accusation". That does have uses beyond the question (see the internet) but even if it didn't it's completely idiomatic.
The issue of the number of speakers on SE's sites can sometimes get in the way of what people say. So, you might have some x number of speakers around here who don't find "oblique accusation" good English. And, of course, they'd be wrong.
Not everything is always already given (toujours déjà donné-Althusser) and his cohorts.
@Laurel It's not about superseding. It's about recognizing speakers above all else. And when these sites here ask for references, in some cases, I myself am a better reference. But not everything has a reference in language. And I often okay things in other varieties of English. I'm not hung up on my own phrasing/usage. That example I gave about "oblique accusation" though pretty much cuts across all educated English speakers.
@CowperKettle That's a new one for me. I think they are defining a new term for an existing phenomenon:
> expectations can be so strong that they lead to illusory perception of another person who is actually not there (i.e., seeing a Bayesian ghost)
the only connection with 'Bayesian' presumably being that the prior probability of the stimulus occurring is so high that a perception is made even if there is no relevant stimulus at test time. (which must have some kind of physiological mechanism to make that happen).
@Lambie In some cases (maybe more often than you think), the people you're contradicting are native speakers. It's awfully hard to speak even for all "educated English speakers", which is why I often specify an answer of mine is true for the people in my circles or dialect
@M.A.R. @CowperKettle is largely right, but it is a picture of Google Cloud TPU v5e for AI workload processing, but it is NOT using nVidia graphics card, but Google-developed ASIC, see comparison here. TPU=Tensor Processing Unit, yet another name for a CPU (like GPU=Graphics Processing Unit).
@Mitch Quite a custom interconnects Google has there, quite cool, see description here. They are eating nVidia's lunch.
@Laurel I would expect all high-level native speakers to accept "oblique accusation". It's a register issue, not a dialectal one. I don't even have "a dialect", unless you consider highly educated as a dialect marker. The term dialect is much misused around here.
@Lambie I'm not a native speaker but spent more decades in the USA than in my native country, and I read a lot of academic books beyond my college years :-). I have seen plenty of "oblique reference" but not "oblique accusation" but both sound okay to me (I don't dare to label it "natural" or not). Maybe this is simply a matter of how common a colocation they are? In Google Books Ngram Viewer between 2017-2022 the former has 18,400 vs. 393 for the latter.
@GratefulDisciple Well, I don't know what natural even means the way many non-natives use it here. For me, when a writer manages to use unusual expressions that work, I say bravo. This was one of them.
@Lambie I can't help but wonder, even though I was never referred to directly, that somehow I am being accused, not totally straight on, but obliquely.
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Where did the contention that "'obliquely accused' is problematic" come from?
or, if you will, solipsistic enough that they think if they hadn't heard it before it's not a thing.
@Lambie I think I purpled that prose enough that I hid your, assuredly non-existent, oblique accusation of me.
@GratefulDisciple for whatever reason, I'm somehow blind to manufacturing and companies and product lines and such.
There were a couple years a few decades ago where I cared a lot about the new API coming out with Windows 3.1 and the Intel 486, but things continuously get better from K to M to G to T
that I don't bother trying to remember who has what at what speed and size and transistors per femtometer and petahertz and billions of tons of CO2 blocking the suns rays.
that said, I don't think NVidia is going to be hurt too bad by google chips, they're all going to make money hand over fist.
The -buyers- of those chips (or buyers of their services) though... I have a feeling they will just be bleeding out money.
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@Mitch They think over at ELU that if no one has ever said it before, it can’t be English, or at least not idiomatic English. The participants also believe that English has rules, people have always written with these rules in mind. Anything that doesn’t fit is called an idiom.
@Mitch Maybe it's like real estate, whether it's buyer's market or seller's market. If cloud providers overextend their AI servers in their data centers, there may come a point where the supply is saturated.
@GratefulDisciple In my professional opinion, the LLM benchmarks are 1) misleading (don't show generality), and 2) gamed. ie, most systems are doing well on benchmarks, but industries trying to use these systems, once they get past a successful (but cherry picked) demo, are very unreliable.
@Mitch I still give you a point though, since AI workloads still vary widely (but I'm still learning). Yes, I wouldn't fall into a bait click if someone talks about LLM accuracy benchmark.
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