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Aunty Lou's avatar

"My hovercraft is full of eels."

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Drew Sanderson's avatar

Please fondle my buttocks.

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Formerly Known as Simon's avatar

Excellent. Lack of communication is one of the main problems we have in this world. Guaranteed most of them will have Klingon as one of its languages and fingers crossed they will also have moron as a default setting.

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insomniac's avatar

Didn't Douglas Adams get here first with a fish?

Anyway, the main problem I have with speaking a new language (for me, Italiano) is that you hear a sentence in Italian, you translate it into English in your head, formulate a response in English in your head, translate it into perfect Italian in your head, and then speak an imperfect sentence in something resembling Italian. All this takes time, and makes for a bumbling conversation. I really like it when an Italian word will just drop without the bullshit going on in your head.

I'm also pretty old school, and would rather learn it than, well, cheat, but I think it would be worth getting your vowels and a few other pronunciation things right too before just reading a bunch of words off your eyeballs.

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Therbs's avatar

Fkn Babel Fish ftw dude. The AI translators will be all like CP30. Shiny bodies but very clunky.

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Bill H's avatar

It would be great if they could integrate it into the customer service departments of cell phone providers and satellite tv services . And drive throughs here

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Michael Barnes's avatar

but think of the Rom-Coms, when they can no longer rely on the trope of the language ignorant white person in a foreign land Colin Firth's whole stick in Love Actually GONE.... well on reflection this is a positive... carry on.

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ivalley's avatar

I coulda used this about a zillion times in my past life.

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