The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5599 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto
| Message 17 of 57 09 March 2010 at 3:29am | IP Logged |
Perhaps 'spy' should be amended to 'Jason Bourne'
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 18 of 57 09 March 2010 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
datsunking1 wrote:
Johntm wrote:
datsunking1 wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
Creating a machine-translation system. |
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I don't care how good I get at languages... That's one thing I'll never create. :D
It will make people lazy!
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People are already lazy.
Or you could be a teacher. A good one, not a crappy, typical public school one. Or a translator, interpreter, ambassador, or the coolest, an international super spy?
Or write a book like Barry Farber's, or one that's even better (good luck with that :P) |
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I agree...but why make it worse.
I don't a computer doing EVERYTHING for me. Taxes, math, typing, a search engine and a dictionary is good enough for me, the rest I'll do myself.
This "let technology do it" generation you and I are in today makes me sick. :P |
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I'm not saying we should make them lazier. I hate how people in our generation think they're entitled to stuff...as well as the "let technology do it" attitude
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gelan Newbie Egypt Joined 5374 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes
| Message 19 of 57 09 March 2010 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
working as translator , he can work as ambassador but it need a lot of experience in politics
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 20 of 57 09 March 2010 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
nescafe wrote:
He often got confused which language he talked about in class, and often misspell words, saying "parque, park? Is it English?". |
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I'm only on my third (second foreign) indo-european language and this happens to me all the time, just because there are so many cognates and loanwords and words that were loanwords, changed and were adopted with the new sense in the first language!
On topic: Well, doesn't that depend more on one's other skills and interests than just on languages?
I always thought the blind man in Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow was absolutely awesome, albeit fictional.
Edited by Bao on 09 March 2010 at 1:00pm
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 22 of 57 09 March 2010 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
Assisting immigrants and refugees.
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jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6293 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 23 of 57 10 March 2010 at 1:15am | IP Logged |
Hotel manager or concierge. (Anyone else see the movie Pretty Woman? The hotel manager was always speaking in different languages to different clients. Inspirational.)
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spanishlearner Groupie France Joined 5453 days ago 51 posts - 81 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 24 of 57 10 March 2010 at 2:07am | IP Logged |
Philosopher - the attempt to subdue reality while powerless for tomorrow's meal.
Edited by spanishlearner on 10 March 2010 at 2:13am
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