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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they didn't speak English, then why can I go to a bookstore and buy Aristotle's Metaphysics in English?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any idea what a translation is? Aristotle spoke English, obviously, but Socrates didn't so it was translated for him in Ancient Greek

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you have any idea what a translation is?

That's when Google turns English into other languages. But the ancient greeks spoke modern English.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's when Google turns English into other languages.

Close, but no. It's the other way around. Why would you want to turn something intelligible into gibberish? That ain't doesn't make no sense! It's turning other languages into English to understand them.

That kinda contradicts my first statement but that heightens the chance that at least one of my statements is true. And since both disagree with yours, best chance is yours is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would you want to turn something intelligible into gibberish?

To help the gibberish people understand, of course! It's so sad when people speak languages other than English. We have to help them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That doesn't make any sense! I think I need an English translation of the gibberish you're talking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would you want to turn something intelligible into gibberish?

Um die Gibberish-Leute zu helfen, es zu verstehen! Mir tun die Leute sehr leid, die andere Sprachen als Englisch sprachen müssen. Wir müssen ihnen helfen 😢

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wer deutsch spricht, kann keine schlechter Menschen sein, die Erdbeere die