Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Ubiquitous Translator


Today for the first time I did something really awkward. I was looking for the adequate translation of a French word into English. I punched the word into my online dictionary. But something was not right. The program kept jumping back to the English to French dictionary instead of the one from French into English.

It took me a minute and then I saw it. The word I had typed in was not the French word but the English translation of the word. Meaning I had translated the word in my head, even though supposedly I was looking for the right translation, and what I had typed was the translation.


Nathalie

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