20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 20 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: Nigerians using naira to buy dollars will be arrested; it's illegal: CBN bitcoin
Language barriers. An all too relevant subject. The language barrier seems to segregate humanity into zones. There needs to be some sort of universal language. English is already considered to be "The business language of the world" and is almost a pre-requisite to learning programming, and yet, it seems to not be good enough.
We have amazing translation programs that can translate a written paper, or text to be pasted, like DeepL and Google translate, yet the refusal to integrate these applications by default into the web page, or even the consideration of using an extension, and the inconvenience of translation mistakes have all contributed to this failing to undo the human segregation created by language barriers
I do wonder, would a sort of hieroglyphic system of emojis, while clumsy, might be some sort of solution?