"Quantas Liras" is TURKISH, ISTG they know exactly what it means. I did this from #Babelfish. I can read minds, yk. I know it's easy to get, but do you realise that if it's outside of SOCIETYRULES they'll pretend they don't
▪︎ that's a way to ask a Price in Turkey
▪︎ that's a thing I picked up, I've a Feeling it's really old
ACTUALLY used this also in Italia and I'm still in MILAN2002. Italians most all know Spanish, but they pretend to not. There I did it from Logic, but in Turkey it felt right
After Babel Fish: The promise of cheap translations at the speed of the Web
https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/after-babel-fish
#HackerNews #cheaptranslations #WebSpeed #BabelFish #languageinnovation
„Live Translation with #AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU.“
Ba-Dum-tss.
How to get #Apple Intelligence - Apple Support (DE) https://support.apple.com/de-de/121115
@oneeyedman cómo se usa en los oídos, yo creo que es más bien como el #BabelFish de #THHGTTG
Lástima que está limitado en el número de idiomas, igual que la app #Translation del aifon.
Dudo que queme muchos bosques, porque se procesa localmente, en el teléfono, sin granjas de servidores
... and having to reverse-engineer the gobbledegook or ultimately fruitlessly because of tech-determinism-fait-accompli ("but it's a feature! is has to work!") switching the "helpful feature" off
there's no #babelfish
I think that #internationalization of scientific #education & #research is good, and a roll back (as has been considered in several European countries) would be bad.
A topical article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01983-3
My reflection (starring the #babelfish !):
https://manywordsandnumbers.org/2025/07/05/science-needs-the-babel-fish-%f0%9f%90%a0/