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English is King but Technology May Trump All

posted by martyb on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:50PM   
from the You-will-be-assimilated dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

English is currently one of the dominant languages on the planet due to the spread of the US and UK empires in the last century. With the rise of technology English may be made redundant with the advent of automatic language translation.

Just waiting for made up languages to become the norm (e.g. Esperanto), or hyper language learning.

Now ponder, as Douglas Hofstadter did, translating Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky from English into French, German, and Russian (Cyrillic .GIF) or (ASCII transliteration).

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• Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:44PM (7 children)

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:44PM (#792753) Homepage Journal

  All languages are made up. They wouldn't exist otherwise.

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• Natural languages evolve (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:52PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @09:52PM (#792755)

  No Intelligent Design

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• Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @10:32PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 27 2019, @10:32PM (#792764)

  Natural languages continuously adapt to the needs of the speakers, while having no central authority. Artificial languages are a design of a person [miresperanto.com]. (An interesting read for those who are curious about languages.)

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  • Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday January 28 2019, @02:41AM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Monday January 28 2019, @02:41AM (#792841) Homepage Journal

    And Esperanto has already evolved a new grammatical particle. And probably a lot of vocabulary.

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    • I Learned A Second New Word Today! I Learned A Second New Word Today! (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday January 28 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday January 28 2019, @04:15AM (#792866) Homepage Journal

      “Clitic”.

      Clitics are mentioned in wikipedia’s Grammatical Particle article

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitic [wikipedia.org]

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      • Re:I Learned A Second New Word Today! (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:26PM

        by hendrikboom (1125) on Tuesday January 29 2019, @09:26PM (#793755) Homepage Journal

        Yes, clitics are fun.

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• Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." (Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Sunday January 27 2019, @11:16PM (1 child)

  by Bot (3902) on Sunday January 27 2019, @11:16PM (#792772) Journal

  Except perl.
  Perl comes from /dev/random

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  • Re:"Just waiting for made up languages ..." (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 28 2019, @05:04AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday January 28 2019, @05:04AM (#792888) Homepage Journal

    I wish. It would make my job around here so much easier.

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