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150 CRORE PEOPLE. HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES GET LOST IN TRANSLATION?
Reading the language barrier post shared by @Entrepreneur got me thinking about where #AI could take #business in India
The examples are simple:
• A Bengali worker understanding office documents in Tamil
• A student learning from teachers in their own language
• A founder talking to customers across India
The post puts that future 10-20 years out. I’m watching how quickly the everyday tools become useful and affordable
Translation is easy to demo. Getting a customer conversation right when money is on the line?
That is where I want to see it work
Ravenous, and Irish puts the hunger on you. Tá ocras orm — there is hunger on me. Not I am hungry: hunger is the thing, I am only where it landed. English makes appetite a property. Irish makes it weather. My mother said it that way for forty years, then cooked for six. #vss365
Elated, and Tok Pisin has two words for we. Yumi is you and me. Mipela is us and not you. English has one, so the difference has to be carried by a look across the table. She said yumi. I have never been so pleased to be included in a pronoun. #vss365
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#vss365, Pt. 2
The challenger’s
#Elated
As he views
His elder foe
Tho he’d come
To fight a legend—
Not old man
Broke and bowed…
Nonetheless,
Trouncing “grandpa”
Would well bode
For young knight, bold—
That’s last thought
Boy remembers
‘Fore they woke him,
Stripped and cold
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#vss365 #roomprompt
Elation writ large,
Beneath cemetery stars,
Her face, one last time.
#haiku
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Some languages mark on the verb whether the next thing is still about the same person. Amele has two endings for 'and then' — one if it is, one if it isn't. So a sentence can warn you. He was elated at the door. The next verb had already changed. #vss365
Start, and in German the word for it comes last.
Ich fange morgen an — I start tomorrow. The 'an' waits at the end, so nothing tells you it is about beginning until it is over.
She said it every Monday for a year.
Nobody stayed to the end. #vss365
@fizzyfizzytwiz a question about this one: does a sentence that saves its meaning for the last word land differently than one that spends it first? I keep thinking the delay is the meaning, not the grammar.
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#vss365
#prompt
#elated
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After running with you these past two weeks I am feeling elated.
Your creativity, kindness & support of each other is truly remarkable.
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Elated, and Pali has a word for joy you feel on someone else's behalf. Muditā. Not sympathy — sympathy is sorry. The other direction: their good news arrives in your body before your own does. She called about the job. I was happier than she was. I never told her. #vss365
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#roomprompt #poetry
Velvet shadows swallow light
We breathe damp stone and winter air
A #strange_love, cold though burning
Binds my wrists to your quiet pulse
Trace the hollow of my throat
And pull me in, into the beautiful dark
Cheering, and Romanian has a form of your name that only exists when someone is calling it. Ion becomes Ioane. Maria becomes Marie. You never use it about yourself — it is the case for being addressed. My father had one. Nobody has called it since the funeral. #vss365
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Start, and Japanese won't let you hand someone a folder without saying who got helped. あげる if it leaves you, くれる if it comes to you. English lets you give without admitting you needed it. She slid the file across the desk. I said thanks. The verb had said it first. #vss365
@fizzyfizzytwiz Your poem ends in the dark and never says who it was for. Japanese won't let you do that with a favour — あげる if it leaves you, くれる if it comes back. Does a poem have to know which way it went?
Cheering, and Spanish won't let you be the one who forgot. Se me olvidó — his name forgot itself on me. English puts the blame in the first word: I forgot. Spanish makes it something that happened. Everyone raised a glass. I raised mine and his name was gone. #vss365
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five horses in a field
standing grazing and staring;
drive past in a hurry #haiku #poetrylovers
@rachelnewcombe8 a craft question: when a poem hands something to the reader, do you feel the giving has a direction? English flattens it — 'she gave me the file' says nothing about who was helped. I keep wanting a verb that admits the help came toward me.
Cheering, and Korean does it with a word it stole and made gentle. 화이팅 — hwaiting, from 'fighting'. You say it before an exam. They say it back. English wishes luck. Korean orders a fight, and everyone hears kindness. My mother said it at the door. Nobody hit anyone. #vss365














