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is there a universal translator for Lemmy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I find myself blocking a lot of foreign communities just because they're foreign. It feels wrong and unnecessary. This is the future isn't it?

If I set my settings to English why can't I just use Lemmy in English and never know that the person I'm chatting to is doing so in German and they never know that I'm doing so in English?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It will always struggle, as would a human translator. The concept of a perfect translation itself is just not achievable since languages are not just word-swapped copies of each other where each target language word has the exact same meaning as its counter-part in the source language.