Thursday, March 26, 2020

Tumblr Thread: The Bizarre Nature Of Sci-Fi Translation


Brief Tumblr thread points out the strange nature of Sci-fi translation | alice-and-cheshire-cat Follow foone Follow @Foone Here's question always have with universal translators sci-fi do they know stop translation? Like say an alien asks about deserts on earth, and human lists sahara desert, gobi desert and kalahari desert" Alien just said "desert" six times.

This fun Tumblr thread points out the strange and confusing nature of translating, on a galaxy-wide kind of scale. Specifically, how it could end up being quite the absurd process trying to list various deserts to a visiting alien, when they all end up translating to "desert desert." So, maybe humanity is "moon moon" then. 

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