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I wonder if this is a native/non-native English reader situation. I'm the latter and for me the title promised that I will read about a server that now is capable of letting a person call to order a pizza. That was immediate thought.

It would be very interesting to see a poll results on how many of us thought that the article is about a server doing phone stuff and not a phone doing server stuff.



I don't think so either, as a native English speaker, I originally read this as my server now has phone capabilities, not my phone is now being used as a server.


Interesting. I saw the title and read "my 1U rack has been replaced by a phone".

(I then realized that I have a cluster of 3 phone chips I use as my "server". Phone chips are pretty OK.)


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I'm non-native English speaker and for me the title was suggesting what was decribed - phone as a server.


I don't think it is, I'm also the latter and happened to assume the opposite. The article was exactly what I expected from the title.

I mean, turning a server rack into a phone just isn't something that makes any sense, so it didn't seem like a valid option to consider. I've thrown it at a few LLMs now to see what happens and they also make the same assumption with no extra info, that it's a server now being hosted on a phone. That's the statistics talking. It's very unlikely to be the opposite.


Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it.

If I said "my water is ice now," one would assume freezing rather than melting.

So in this case one would assume a server became a phone, when actually a phone became a server.

(English is my first language.)


Yes, that’s a great example.

I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.


In this case you have enough implicit context to correctly infer the meaning, but the particular sentence construction strongly implies that the server can now make phone calls.




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