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He was sent by the organizers, he told me, to help me if I got stuck and correct me if I made a mistake. I could hardly spit out the first sentence—“Nous saluons les délégués venus de tous les coins du monde” (Welcome to the delegates who arrived from all corners of the world)—when he covered the microphone and warned me: “Comrade, you can’t say that. The Earth is round, the world has no corners!”
— Mar 22, 2015 05:01AM
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“What is the most widespread language in the world?” I am often asked. “Broken English,” I tend to answer.
— Mar 22, 2015 05:22AM
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When saying goodbye, I asked them if I might have a request. “Of course, go ahead!” they encouraged me. I turned to professor Bernal, who I knew was an expert in machine translation, and asked him not to hurry with perfecting these apparatuses because in that case we, interpreters, would be out of work. He comforted me by laughing and saying that machine translation would not be able to replace humans for a long time
— Mar 22, 2015 04:55AM
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I would like to discuss now who one can expect, beyond one’s teacher, to correct language mistakes. My experience is that speakers of small languages will do it. To them, it’s still a novelty that their language is being spoken by non-natives
or “people from the outer world.” They alert one to every single mistake committed, with the zeal of missionaries.
— Mar 21, 2015 09:52PM
or “people from the outer world.” They alert one to every single mistake committed, with the zeal of missionaries.
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Man lernt Grammatik aus der Sprache, nicht Sprache aus der Grammatik
— Mar 14, 2015 11:04PM
