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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday July 26, 2020 @12:59PM (#23958401)
That's what people said about Japanese back in the '80s; you practically couldn't open a newspaper without seeing somebody mention it. Didn't happen.
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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by bobbyz on Sunday July 26, 2020 @03:57PM (#23959704)
The difference this time around is that Chinese has almost double the information density of Japanese, and the Chinese middle class is a lot bigger ($$$).
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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by Nasrudith on Sunday July 26, 2020 @05:33PM (#23960351)
Aren't we long past the text information density mattering? Text is negligible in comparison to even still images.
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Re:The internet is multilingual but you need to learn Mandarin by bobbyz on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:06PM (#23966407)
From my quite limited understanding, english is involved at some level during image and video encoding.
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