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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:eyeroll Re:eyeroll (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:44AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28 2019, @04:44AM (#792880)

  Then get another implant that makes intelligent, witty, insightful comments in your voice while triggering the muscles in your jaw. You can be the best conversationalist* in the room even when asleep.

  ^{*Other people may also use AmazingConvo implants and be equal conversationalists. Implants known to the state of California to cause cancer. Offer void where prohibited.}

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• Re:eyeroll (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 28 2019, @04:49AM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Monday January 28 2019, @04:49AM (#792881) Journal

  I don't think what you've proposed is impossible.

  Using an advanced brain implant could be like having hours to think about each moment in a conversation. Or it could just scrape up things people have already said, string it together in a coherent fashion, and have you spit it out.

  Neural lace ftw.

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