Message from @birds
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if you need to identify yourself by your hobbies, you're just an anime nerd
I say all this having watched some 250 anime and read dozens of VNs
and I don't know how many manga
I'm sure once we all have perfect machine translator earpieces it'll just auto translate the word to nerd
That's not even to say japanese words can't be adopted into english, hikikamori is a recognized medical condition in psychology unique from any other
or umami in cooking
yeah there are japanese terms that cant be translated into english without expanding on the meaning
like sayings, expressions
which change with society, slang is an example. no translator can keep up with that i dont think
not so
it would be an impressive achievement if any translator could
AI translators are already as good at translating as people are
they'll be better in a couple years
?
where
i think its more rewarding to learn the language yourself
you'll learn the language's culture if you do
Its hard to find any smoking gun for you, but machine translation has been a subject of research pretty much since google started actively funding RND, and other institutions are as well. It'll happen before too long
Learning a language is valuable, and it makes you a better thinker, but not everyone can or will do it
why
instant translation means any idiot in the world can seamlessly communicate with any other idiot
as if we needed more idiots communicating with other idiots
the barriers in culture will begin to erode and we'll more easily transition into a globally minded species
jokes aside
learn arabic - understand the definition of peace
LUL
nice meme lulster
😛
hmm
i like the way things are now
stagnation is no better than death
i sort of want to keep japan, japan. the way it is now. not merged with other countries to contribute to a fully globalized world
which makes me a traditionalist
it makes you a xenophile
no, that would make me a xenophobe
if you were japanese it would
which I doubt you are
globalization hurts. a lot.
so youre telling me im not japanese?