Comments on: “The world’s common language is broken English” http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/05/26/the-worlds-common-language-is-broken-english/ Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bulldog http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/05/26/the-worlds-common-language-is-broken-english/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Bulldog Thu, 28 May 2009 07:07:58 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=1058#comment-148 I study Chinese for the last 2 years, and I'm not worried. It will take decades before the technology will know the tiny, yet crucial, cultural differences and language nuances. In other words - What you call "good enough" will not be good enough many years from now. Personally, I'll not give up the pleasure of discovering new culture and its people via language difficulties. It might be useful when I'm on a spaceship ;) maybe. There are some alternatives even today. For instance, crowdsourcing of translations (to real, human translators) enables fast translation of texts. It's not on-the-fly voice translation, but at least the quality is high. Such a website is OneHourTranslation.com, And there are few more. Still, I'll be the first one to try any new technology that will be "good enough". I study Chinese for the last 2 years, and I’m not worried. It will take decades before the technology will know the tiny, yet crucial, cultural differences and language nuances. In other words – What you call “good enough” will not be good enough many years from now. Personally, I’ll not give up the pleasure of discovering new culture and its people via language difficulties. It might be useful when I’m on a spaceship ;) maybe. There are some alternatives even today. For instance, crowdsourcing of translations (to real, human translators) enables fast translation of texts. It’s not on-the-fly voice translation, but at least the quality is high. Such a website is OneHourTranslation.com, And there are few more. Still, I’ll be the first one to try any new technology that will be “good enough”.

]]> By: G http://workingworldcareers.com/2009/05/26/the-worlds-common-language-is-broken-english/comment-page-1/#comment-143 G Tue, 26 May 2009 21:51:00 +0000 http://workingworldcareers.com/?p=1058#comment-143 The Amazing Race would be significantly less interesting with that technology. Have fun in LA. The Amazing Race would be significantly less interesting with that technology.

Have fun in LA.

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