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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by sensitivefrost on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:21PM (#30939138)
Interesting. The end implies he doesn't want to clean carpets any more. I hope he can find a job translating in a capacity that makes him happy to use his language skills he clearly finds so much joy from.
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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by bayesian_horse on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:31AM (#30942413)
I'd hope someone hires him.

He probably doesn't have the skills for a traditional translating job, just as the average bilingual person hasn't. There are jobs for "unskilled" translators, not sure how much and in what contexts. Not sure if there is a job description out there for "hyper-polyglot genius". Niche-skill at best, unfortunately.

Maybe as a tester for multilingual software?

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