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Joshau-k t1_j3yhw04 wrote

Reply to comment by chacham2 in [WP] Everyone is born with a power, but they can be bought and sold. Being poor, you purchase only the cheapest ones, gaining you ridicule and the title "Mr. Useless". Recently, however, you realized how you can use all these "useless" powers together, and set out to make a better name for yourself. by chacham2

But they are only in extinct languages

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apple_of_doom t1_j3z1to4 wrote

Linguists, historians and anthropologists would kill for that. Basically any lost language could get deciphered overnight.

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chacham2 OP t1_j3yzkmx wrote

If that's the price, i'll learn the extinct language. :)

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HaikuBotStalksMe t1_j3z6ujj wrote

That works. You just name objects and then verbs. And then try to figure out conjugation.

Granted, I wonder if the translations take into account idioms. Like "he'll be there in a moment" translates to like the equivalent of "he will be there in a tenth of a second"?

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chacham2 OP t1_j3zktir wrote

> I wonder if the translations take into account idioms.

That is a can of worms, debated for at least a thousand years. More recently, Allan Bloom's introduction to The Republic goes through the topic of translation and gives explains different approaches to promote his own.

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