Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Why AI doesn't speak every language" video.

  1. An oddity for you: when my father graduated from college, in pharmacy, in the 1930s, his first job was translating English-language pharmacy texts into Welsh. He lasted two weeks in the job, he told me, and quit, believing the whole thing was useless. My former partner's first job, when she first left higher education because of the civil war, was translating English language texts into Tik-Monjiaang, ("Language of The People," aka "Dinka"). Exactly parallel story: she quit within weeks, believing that the whole effort was going nowhere. (Today, a generation later, both efforts, in Welsh and in Dinka, are back in operation -- at scales comparable perhaps to that in Catalan in this excellent video.)
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