You're absolutely right! Americans are a bit weird like that, most people around the world would be perfectly okay with short and to-the-point answers. Especially if those answers are coming from a machine that's just giving its best imitation of a stochastic hallucinating parrot.
Claude is very "American", just try asking it to use English English spelling instead of American English spelling; it lasts about 3~6 sentences before it goes back. Also there is only American English in the UI (like the spell checker, et al), in Spanish you get a choice of dialects, but not English.
Why? 8.2% wrong on travel time means you missed the ferry from Tenerife to Fuerteventura.
You'll be happy Altman said they're making it warmer.
I'd think the glaze mode should be the optional mode.