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The Blaz
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 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
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 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.


I don't care how good I get at languages... That's one thing I'll never create. :D

It will make people lazy!
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)


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
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
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 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
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 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?".

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
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 Message 22 of 57
09 March 2010 at 9:56pm | IP Logged 
Assisting immigrants and refugees.
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jimbo
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 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
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 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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