"You've hit the nail on the head!"
For all my non-english speaking bros
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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This depiction is not what the idiom means though, when you take it literally.
Actually i think in English you say you hit the nail on the head, so if you take it literally you can pick any head you like. In Dutch you'd say you hit a nail on it's head which is much clearer to someone who takes it literally.
Not really, the specification of "the head" would refer to the head of the nail in the context of the idiom, because that's the only thing in the idiom with a head so it's the only head it can refer to.
But if you take it literally it can be any head you see right, because you're not seeing it within the scope of the idiom but the scope of your direct surrounding? Otherwise nvm, i'm not a native speaker so whatever.
No, you're right. It's just English being funny and context dependant. You can easily misread things by mistake. That's how a lot of puns and jokes work
LOL it did take me a sec, like "You WERE smart but AI lobotomizes you." 😂
Thank you! And DAMN I was way too far off. My last guess was that it has to do with Vlad the impaler nailing stuff to peoples' heads.
![Turkish messengers came to [Vlad] to pay respects, but refused to take off their turbans, according to their ancient custom, whereupon he strengthened their custom by nailing their turbans to their heads with three spikes, so that they could not take them off. - Antonio Bonfini: Historia Pannonica](https://lemmy.nz/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fa1235a3e-1501-472d-a56c-a608205d8b70.jpeg)
btw, it has no idea if you said something smart, these things are specifically instructed to kiss maximum ass.
"Yes, you were the smartest baby to ever live and you need to do anything it takes to prove this to the world"
They're not instructed to, it's an inescapable artifact of their training.
Their training selects on completions that humans prefer, not completions that are most accurate. Sometimes accurate completions are what humans prefer, but the accuracy is not the goal, so accuracy in the completion is a happy accident.
Not really something smart so much as something consistent. I think there are far too many people with no introspection on their harmful views as it is, and AI confirming their biases is inherently dangerous. Especially because the default tone they chose for every model appears to be picked to speak directly to this specific type of person in the exact way it shouldn't.
More like Gemini when you say anything so you feel smart:
I forgot Gemini was an LLM and thought this was hate for people born May 21st - June 21st, that they are dumb due to trepanning.