<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 13:04 William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think that the time has come where an educated person in any field has no use for any foreign language. How could we possibly compete with professional people whose job it is to translate for us? We are going to learn enough Greek to enjoy the Iliad in the original? Why?</div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Travel! Interpersonal communication! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The way to someone's heart is through their language. The world is locked, and the keys are language. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No matter how good a translator is, they can't make a deal for you as well as you could if you spoke the language. Some people might be swayed to work together because YOU have spent time mastering their language, translator be damned. There is no substitute for the genuine cultural curiousity displayed by one who learns a language, and native speakers respect this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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