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> or perhaps even learning to write in some intermediate, non-native-human language whose reduced feature set guarantees a certain level of translatability I c
by jobigoud 8y ago
> or perhaps even learning to write in some intermediate, non-native-human language whose reduced feature set guarantees a certain level of translatability
I cannot pass an opportunity to mention Europanto (not to be confused with Esperanto), a language where you arbitrarily mix and match words from various European languages.
If you know a Roman language and a Germanic language (in addition to English) you can craft sentences that will be understood by many, because of the shared roots and vocabulary.
When you write a sentence you select among synonyms and origin based on how close the word is to its variants in the other languages.
Unfortunately mon Deutsch est too bad pour escribir full paragraphes en cette technik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europanto
- IggleSniggle 8y ago“Unfortunately mon Deutsch est too bad pour escribir full paragraphes en cette technik.” Wow, this is beautiful! I love it! Thank you for exposing me to this idea. It really optimizes for the kind of pattern matching most humans are adapted for.
- posterboy 8y agothat works on word level, but unfortunately is the syntax too different to full paragraphs adapt (this is German word order). too different is an exaggeration but highlights the problem the GP mentions. por mir zu traduire weird idiomatics sono (sonet?) malade to het capo/tete/Kopf--For me to translate weird idiomatics sounds crazy in the head (that's along the lines of for them to ... and not ... sounds crazy for me, although the former might stem from a corruption of the latter if I'm any judge).