An actual worthwhile investment.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Impossible, as the structure of language is not the same so you will always have lag or you need context to get the right meaning of a word. If someone is going to a ball, are they going to a dance, or getting a toy off the ground?

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      11 days ago

      Anyone who knows at least two languages can tell you that you need to listen to the whole sentence before you can start translating. Usually there’s something in the end that changes everything. In many cases, the word order is more or less reversed, so you have to start translating from the end.

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          chat the entered japanese

          I felt it was imminent. My bro married a beautiful girl from japan, and she’s so patient; but, even being marginally fluent in Thai and Mandarin as well as his French and English experience - thus, super plastic for languages - Japanese is still so hard. It seems to be THE poster-child for inscrutably challenging second-languages!

          (Hmm. He needs to watch more anime maybe?)

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            that doesn’t sound too far from japanese !

            (my phrase above does not follow japanese syntax exactly, I was just being facetious. It would go subject ->object -> past participe)

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        It’s still not impossible, since professional humans can do it too. It’ll never be 100% accurate though and that’s just something we have to accept.

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      11 days ago

      Maybe just get AI to the point it knows that I’m taking my toy to the dance, and remembers that for the next piece of the convo?