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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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• I'll drink to that I'll drink to that (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday January 28 2019, @11:20AM (1 child)

  by fyngyrz (6567) on Monday January 28 2019, @11:20AM (#792946) Journal

  you can be far more specific if you have a lager vocabulary

  My fellow soylentil, all I really need is Bud Light.

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• Re:I'll drink to that (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday January 28 2019, @04:16PM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday January 28 2019, @04:16PM (#793058) Journal

  My fellow soylentil, all I really need is Bud Light.

  Philistine.

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