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that's an interesting idea, but I dunno if "language learners" comprise a sufficiently influential cultural group to influence language in this way. If I learn
by ikesau 3y ago
that's an interesting idea, but I dunno if "language learners" comprise a sufficiently influential cultural group to influence language in this way.
If I learned a new word through duolingo, used it while speaking to native speakers of the language, and no one knew what it meant, I probably would be embarrassed and confused and not use the word again.
But maybe it'll happen! And along that line, I wonder if advanced language models will be able to identify "missing words" that we're lacking to discuss concepts that we haven't yet conceptualized.
- codetrotter 3y agoThe trick is to teach French learners that this word means something in French and at the same time to teach English learners that it means something in English. So you travel to France and practice your newly-learned French. You run across a French person who has been learning English. You use the word thinking that it’s French, and the person you speak to has already heard it as an English word and thinks that you don’t know the word in French but they know what you mean thinking it’s an English word.