Mastodawn

As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.

But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.

There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.

For profit.

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Mike Roach Oct 28

@randahl Since they're automatic, I assume the translations are bad or at least leaving a lot on the table. Professional translators know when text contains culture-specific references or word play or innuendo and come up with clever analogues to make the joke or point land when translated.

So sad for people consuming content this way...

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nachtet

@mroach @randahl No idea if it's accurate, it is done in the most monotone, annoying, slightly too fast and too loud tone, that I wasn't able to pay attention to anything it said.