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Re:Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scr... by presentation on Sunday March 08, 2026 @10:42PM (#47304283)
Yeah, I am American but my wife is Japanese and she found it irritating and inexplicable that my friends and I would interrupt each other while talking. This number probably varies significantly by culture.
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Re:Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scr... by SergeAx on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:56PM (#47318619)
This is because in Japanese, the verb (or the main predicate) almost always comes at the very end of the sentence. Half of the time, you have a chance to get the whole phrase wrong.

The same, but rarer, may happen in German when a long, complex sentence ends with "nicht", flipping the whole meaning.

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