Comment by ixtli
3 days ago
I wish more people had casual exposure to professional translators. Its a deeply important, vanishingly small segment of the human population and has been this way for at least many thousands of years. Also, it will continue to be!
I’ve a friend who does simultaneous interpretation at the UN and she’s just… good god, how do you even do that. Oh, and she does it in six languages.
And here I am, brain the size of a galaxy, and I fumble my way through every language I speak other than English.
Serious respect for the linguists.
I guess I should have figured Marvin would be here on HN, feeling sorry for himself.
> brain the size of a galaxy
Wow, aren't you humble.
It's a quote from Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.