> "I would have needed a machine-translation tool to be able to communicate with [my mother]" [a CS researcher] said. Now he is beginning to understand her with

> "I would have needed a machine-translation tool to be able to communicate with [my mother]" [a CS researcher] said. Now he is beginning to understand her without machine assistance If you need machine assistance to communicate with your own mother in her native tongue, then that language was already on its way out. Young generations less and less adopting the language of their parent generations is the age-old story of how languages die, since long before we had computers. This example, and the article in general, seems to contradict its premise.