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I think this is really interesting, because "the enemy landed several of our aircraft(s)" is the sort of sentence I'd have hauled a student up for using as a te
by throwaway936482 7y ago
I think this is really interesting, because "the enemy landed several of our aircraft(s)" is the sort of sentence I'd have hauled a student up for using as a teacher, because 1) it's a none standard, arguably incorrect usage they've used either because they're a none native speaker or because they're trying to be clever and failing, and 2) because the plural of aircraft is aircraft. Nevertheless the author of this sentence almost certainly meant land to mean something different (shot down) than the author of the first, and we can infer the author's intended meaning despite the none standard usage.
This poorly written sentence is the sort of thing you see all the time in the real world, especially from none native speakers, children, and people writing about a topic outside their expertise. If a program can spot the difference in the usage of the word land between these two sentences and infer what the intended meaning in the second sentence is, then it's doing pretty well. Just inferring that land is used to mean something different in the two sentences is less impressive but still pretty cool and I'm not sure which claim is being made.
- HereBeBeasties 7y agoIf you teach others English, please learn the difference between "none" and "non". You mean "non-standard" in all your examples here (if British) or perhaps "nonstandard" (if American).
- saalweachter 7y agoAs someone who spends a lot of time puzzling out intent, I would infer they are using "landed" to mean "grounded" in that context.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoI would have assumed the second used the term landed to mean acquired. But only after being told that it’s meaning is supposed to be different from the first. With no other context from those two sentences, I’d have guessed #2 Meant land the same way as #1 One other point: I’ve never heard the term “landed” to mean “grounded”, which is maybe the actual intent of #2, but maybe the ai sentence generation is off.....