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But a universal translator makes it irrelevant if you learn a common language, it’ll allow people to speak their native language without material friction. IMO that’ll be the best thing for preserving a rich linguistic body of languages and dialects.


> a universal translator makes it irrelevant if you learn a common language

We are nowhere close to a proper universal translator. Simply transcribing words from one language to another is lossy.




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