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Melissa Harrison's avatar

Oh this is fascinating, thank you. Though I’d always assumed (without much basis) that the phrase was sewing-related. When you’re constructing a garment inside out it can look entirely unrelated to the one that appears when you ‘turn it out’, ie turn it back the right way with the seams inside.

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Hollis Robbins (@Anecdotal)'s avatar

I love this! My grandmother used to turn garments inside out at the department store to see how well the seams were finished and how sturdy the lining was. Very embarrassing to me then but it was such a good lesson about quality and craft. Thank you! Coming at terms literally is an excellent practice and now this will always be in my mind.

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Pam Reese's avatar

That’s wonderful as it turns out!! It our human language—don’t teach your A.I. to use it, please

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Frances Smith Starn's avatar

Super, Hollis!

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Henry Oliver's avatar

I love this!

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Lane's avatar

Maybe the LLM programmers tell the AI not to use certain phrases

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Rajesh Achanta's avatar

As it turns out, I enjoyed reading this ...

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