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I'm not sure this is true anywhere, and it's changing constantly. Here is my favorite sentence from a German ad: 'We' eröffnet einen neuen Store für Men und W
by kaybe 9y ago
I'm not sure this is true anywhere, and it's changing constantly.
Here is my favorite sentence from a German ad:
'We' eröffnet einen neuen Store für Men und Women.
(A shopping chain called 'we' opens a new shop for men and women.)
This is by no means normal everyday language but marketing is full of these things.
(Not that all Germans understand it, I remember a TV show going around asking people what they thought the marketing slogans meant - it was hilarious.)
- TeMPOraL 9y agoHopefully there will be more work done in mixing languages. That's a particular issue for me with Google Now - it will recognize sentences in Polish, or sentences in English, but... that's not how think in my head. Most of the time I do a free-form mix of those two languages, often at the level of an individual sentence. (To be clear: I'm not whining. Speech recognition is getting absurdly good as it is. It's just that being able to mix languages in a free-form way would be... perfection :).)