• @LordAmplifier
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    811 months ago

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

    • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      911 months ago

      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

      • @Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        511 months ago

        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.

        • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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          11 months ago

          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.

          • @Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            311 months ago

            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

            • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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              211 months ago

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

              • @Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                211 months ago

                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 😢