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View from the North 40: Up a language creek without a translator paddle

Imagine, if you can, a world in which people in different regions spoke different languages. Yes, I just asked you to imagine reality, but let’s step that up a notch.

Now, imagine having to rely on a computer program to help you communicate in the different languages. You may not know it, but I just asked you to live in a world of babbling gibberish — a world in which you are to make sense of statements like: “These are to deserve the rushes mesh Nsawin penny pony. Not from flattened cup, God created the tea bothered him on Twitter and Facebook and Astaqram.”

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