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itwoodbeprefect · 4 months

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it's a delightfully humbling experience to run across a video with hardcoded subtitle translations in two different languages and absolutely none of those (the spoken language or the subtitled ones) are even slightly related to the four languages i could somewhat claim to speak or the nice handful of others i can at least try to take educated guesses at. there is a wide open world out there full of words i don't know and likely never will, and not for lack of trying, but because we (humans) have SO many different languages the human lifespan just isn't long enough to learn them all. and i think that's incredibly cool, actually

#WORDS. if there's one thing my descent into thai media has done it's supercharge the amount of time i already spent daily #pondering language and its nuances and contrasts between different ones and the challenges of translation and cultural exchange #*#okay wait screaming. different video has thai audio a mandarin song and vietnamese subtitles #and there is one (1) comment. in german!!! below which youtube added a dutch 'Naar het Engels vertalen' (translate to english) button #when that's the one (1) part of all this i could translate to english myself. or dutch. or just read it in german #oh i LOVE the internet sometimes. this is amazing. sorry to books but i can't get this exact befuddling experience from you

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