Re:The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Transla...
by mrec on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @11:16AM
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> I'm french. My country has a VERY strong view on the local language protection. [...] Peace, democracy, exchange, cooperation, archiving, education: they are too hard to do in hundreds of languages.
I can't find where I originally read this, but wasn't the French obsession with standardizing their language largely a response to the pre-Revolutionary period, when France was a giant patchwork of divergent dialects and you'd be hard-pressed to understand someone from the next village over?
I can't find where I originally read this, but wasn't the French obsession with standardizing their language largely a response to the pre-Revolutionary period, when France was a giant patchwork of divergent dialects and you'd be hard-pressed to understand someone from the next village over?