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

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: 3, Insightful) by ewk on Monday January 28 2019, @10:56AM (1 child)

    by ewk (5923) on Monday January 28 2019, @10:56AM (#792945)

    "Brain implant recognizes intended complete sentences before they are spoken, transmits to the other person's brain implant, "

    Really? You want my unfettered, uncensored thoughts to be spewed out before some other part of my brain at least attempts to filtered out or convert the worst to something decent?

    I didn't think so :-)

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by kazzie on Monday January 28 2019, @04:37PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 28 2019, @04:37PM (#793072)

    If we wanted that kind of content, we'd just browse at -1.