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I wish more people had casual exposure to professional translators. Its a deeply important, vanishingly small segment of the human population and has been this
by ixtli 4mo ago
I wish more people had casual exposure to professional translators. Its a deeply important, vanishingly small segment of the human population and has been this way for at least many thousands of years. Also, it will continue to be!
- madaxe_again 4mo agoI’ve a friend who does simultaneous interpretation at the UN and she’s just… good god, how do you even do that. Oh, and she does it in six languages. And here I am, brain the size of a galaxy, and I fumble my way through every language I speak other than English. Serious respect for the linguists.
- projektfu 4mo agoI guess I should have figured Marvin would be here on HN, feeling sorry for himself.
- sandblast 4mo ago> brain the size of a galaxy Wow, aren't you humble.
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoIt's a quote from Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.