Apropos of nothing: people sharply underrate the utility of knowing a high-consequences language pair. You'd think bilingual people are common in the world, and they are. And you'd think that they're common in corridors of power, and they are. And yet...
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Reminds me of my side hustle after law school doing French->English wearables patent application translations. B.S. in French, 8 yrs in software industry, law degree - check. But w/o industrial engineering / math / physics background, it was pretty hopeless.
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Absolutely. And yet people with that kind of expertise are often woefully under-compensated because many people think that machine translation is “good enough”.
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This is a very insightful take! And it becomes even more extreme when you analyze populist governments in power, the kind that are dismissive of foreing information and instead are localist with nationalistic tendencies... Here language is only a mere instrument of ideology
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