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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: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Monday January 28 2019, @12:26AM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday January 28 2019, @12:26AM (#792789) Journal

    So why is it that all the aristarchus submissions in Dutch, German, French. Norwegian, Greek, Japanese, and American English all get rejected? I thought TMB included Unicode for a reason. Why is SN so full of "white pride" types who are incapable of speaking a white language?

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Monday January 28 2019, @05:09AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday January 28 2019, @05:09AM (#792891) Journal

    For those who are wondering, and modding the poor aristarchus off-topic: Polish is not a white language, it is a Slavic Language, as any Russian enthralled Trump worshipper should know, even if they live in Arkansas, and drive a $vehicle and works at a $workplace. Racist hillbillies!