Asked Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Pro to explain this. Only Gemini gets it right in the first shot. Claude gets it right when given the physics hint in the 3rd shot (although its early cutoff prevents it from getting the Squid Game reference). 4o fails 3 times but admits I made it curious.

That sounds very Meta.

"The Tahitian language, for example, has 46 different words for anger, but no word for sadness. In some African languages, the same word can represent both sadness and anger."
Passed that by LLMs. Gemini 1206 and ChatGPT take the bait, but only Claude has the "let me stop you right there" moment.

I have a local 7B model and its thinking gives the impression of a red herring or, at most, a side hustle. Looks like a parallel story about an anxious highschooler caught off guard and trying to improvise an answer to what the user asked.