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Here, just let me put this fish in your ear.
Oh dear. I hadn't thought of that. poof
ai investment sould go to public education so we can all learn whatever language we like
Right?
It drives me nuts that they want to spend trillions of dollars on technology to write for people instead of teaching people how to write.
I still think we should agree on a universal sign language and then have every country teach it in school for all years of public school.
we should agree on a universal sign language
Have I got an xkcd for you!
there are 6 competing standards!
Now 7
That would be not very accessible for people with sight or hand mobility issues. We'd need a spoken form of it, too.
We will never be able to have a perfect international language but considering all of the difficulties involved in creating an international that people around the world could speak, sign language that “only” alienates a small percentage of the population would be a huge improvement over the current system
It would, but we also can do better
Impossible, as the structure of language is not the same so you will always have lag or you need context to get the right meaning of a word. If someone is going to a ball, are they going to a dance, or getting a toy off the ground?
Anyone who knows at least two languages can tell you that you need to listen to the whole sentence before you can start translating. Usually there’s something in the end that changes everything. In many cases, the word order is more or less reversed, so you have to start translating from the end.
chat the entered japanese
dattebayo!
...nai
The issue would be the languages having different syntaxes (syntaces?).
Doesn't this already exist?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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