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That’s a strange usage of the word “cuts”. I thought GitHub terminated the deals with Google and Anthropic. It would be better if the title were GitHub signs AI

by hi41 2y ago

That’s a strange usage of the word “cuts”. I thought GitHub terminated the deals with Google and Anthropic. It would be better if the title were GitHub signs AI deals instead of cuts.

r00fus 2y ago
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gregschlom 2y ago
I'm assuming you're not a native speaker? (I'm not) - "to cut a deal" is a fairly common idiom that means to reach and agreement.
- seoulmetro 2y ago
  "cut a deal" is an idiom. "cuts ____ deals" is not and more closely resembles the removal of deals related to ____.
- naniwaduni 2y ago
  As an aside, "closing" and "concluding" a deal or sale also usually mean to successfully reach an agreement. It's more of a semantic quirk around deals than an isolated idiom.
- hi41 2y ago
  That’s correct. Not a native speaker. I am not well versed with slang words. I am sometimes embarrassed because I speak as if they are words from a book instead of sounding like spoken words. Do you know how cuts came to mean that it’s a deal. For a non-native speaker it means the exact opposite thing as in “he cut a wire”. Language evolves in strange ways.
  - samatman 2y ago
    "Cut a deal" is an idiom, not slang: it's appropriate language to use in a business context, for example. The origin is hazy, of the theories I've seen I consider this the best one: "deal" means both "an agreement" and "to distribute cards in a card game". The dealer, in the latter sense, first cuts the card deck then deals the card. "Cut and deal" -> "cut a deal". It could also be related to "cut a check", which comes from an era before perforated paper was widespread, when one would literally cut the check out of a book of checks.
    - hi41 2y ago
      Thanks much for the explanation.
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by hi41 2y ago

That’s a strange usage of the word “cuts”. I thought GitHub terminated the deals with Google and Anthropic. It would be better if the title were GitHub signs AI deals instead of cuts.

r00fus 2y ago

https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-a-deal/#:~:text=Today's%20phrase%20is%20“cut%20a,about%20the%20movie%20Darkest%20Hour https://plainenglish.com/expressions/cut-a-deal/#:~:text=Tod....

gregschlom 2y ago

I'm assuming you're not a native speaker? (I'm not) - "to cut a deal" is a fairly common idiom that means to reach and agreement.

seoulmetro 2y ago
"cut a deal" is an idiom. "cuts ____ deals" is not and more closely resembles the removal of deals related to ____.
naniwaduni 2y ago
As an aside, "closing" and "concluding" a deal or sale also usually mean to successfully reach an agreement. It's more of a semantic quirk around deals than an isolated idiom.
hi41 2y ago
That’s correct. Not a native speaker. I am not well versed with slang words. I am sometimes embarrassed because I speak as if they are words from a book instead of sounding like spoken words. Do you know how cuts came to mean that it’s a deal. For a non-native speaker it means the exact opposite thing as in “he cut a wire”. Language evolves in strange ways.
- samatman 2y ago
  "Cut a deal" is an idiom, not slang: it's appropriate language to use in a business context, for example. The origin is hazy, of the theories I've seen I consider this the best one: "deal" means both "an agreement" and "to distribute cards in a card game". The dealer, in the latter sense, first cuts the card deck then deals the card. "Cut and deal" -> "cut a deal". It could also be related to "cut a check", which comes from an era before perforated paper was widespread, when one would literally cut the check out of a book of checks.
  - hi41 2y ago
    Thanks much for the explanation.

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