adelie

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by adelie 4y ago
yep, exactly. the issue isn't that there will no longer be a need for human translators - machine translation makes subtle mistakes that legal/technical fields will need a human to double-check. the issue is that many translation
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by adelie 4y ago
i read the three-body problem in chinese, but didn't read the translation. my impression was that liu cixin's writing isn't very literary - he rarely uses rhetorical flourishes or idiomatic expressions, and his vocabulary is
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by adelie 4y ago
you definitely see this in the translation industry. neural net machine translation misses enough nuance that it can't replace a human translator where it really matters, but it 'looks right' enough to convince clients that i
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by adelie 4y ago
it's a common expression here in the US, at least! unsure about the UK.
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by adelie 4y ago
My high school English teacher adamantly refused to read any essay over the length of one page, double-spaced. I learned more from that class than any other writing class I took.
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by adelie 4y ago
I wouldn't be so worried about non-native English speakers. 'Whitelist' and 'blacklist' are common enough terms that they've become loanwords in other languages. In Chinese, at least, the equivalent terms are 白
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by adelie 5y ago
This is essentially the premise of Neal Stephenson's Fall or Dodge in Hell.
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by adelie 7y ago
i'm not familiar with the temeraire novels, but based on your description the naming system makes total sense to me - and definitely sounds more natural to native ears. it looks like they're using personal name conventions for the
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by adelie 7y ago
regardless of how i might feel about stallman's actions, the dishonest reporting and twitter mob-baiting leading up to his removal leaves a bad taste in my mouth. while there are those who believe 'stallman did nothing wrong,&#x27
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by adelie 7y ago
i'd actually say that's an argument against having an 'adversity score' - a single value simply isn't enough to capture the nuances of your situation, and having a standardized score might pressure colleges to rely
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by adelie 7y ago
don't need either of those. shipping isn't even a problem now with taobao direct - taobao themselves will cover shipping to one of their warehouses, and then you can batch those to ship internationally. once you get used to the fo
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by adelie 7y ago
most of the criticism i've heard about 13 reasons why is less that it portrays a 'taboo subject,' but rather that it does so in a way that glamorizes suicide. from some perspectives, hannah got everything she wanted by killin
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by adelie 7y ago
am one of those people! depends a lot on the commentary, though - i probably don't care about your feelings (sorry) or descriptive prose. on the other hand, when i'm looking up a recipe from another culture, i really value comment
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by adelie 8y ago
> Given that I'm 22, and have spent the majority of my internship/working career in China i assume this is a typo? otherwise i'm a little concerned about a culture where a 22-year-old has that much work experience, haha. c
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by adelie 8y ago
it's what you make of it, i suppose. there's no score, no deadlines, and no punishment for missing things in the game, so it's a very relaxing game for me. some 'days' in the game i'd get up, water my plants, a
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by adelie 8y ago
not the person you responded to, but someone with a similar perspective. i have a fairly tricky-to-fit body shape and prefer to try things on in person, since many things in my size don't actually look right on me. same goes for shoes
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by adelie 8y ago
communication with friends or family in china, mostly. when most common western social media has no foothold in china - or is simply blocked - getting a wechat account is the simplest way to stay in contact. and i'd imagine most of tho