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English is King but Technology May Trump All

posted by martyb on Sunday January 27 2019, @08:50PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Monday January 28 2019, @12:07AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Monday January 28 2019, @12:07AM (#792782)

    The big disadvantage is no clear and consistent rules of pronunciation

    That's not a bug. That's the feature. You can read my other post to get the gist of it. But specifically to foreign countries deciding on which 2nd language to teach, English is preferred exactly because the students won't be able to transfer their reading and writing skills easily to speech so there's less of a lower-middle class brain drain risk.

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