[gfaster]

Anyone who knows or is learning another language can easily tell you that the "warping" methodology of MTL is insufficient. There was a really good video by Tom Scott [1] that talked about this but the short version is that there is critical bits of language in context and inferred by speakers. Any accurate MTL needs nearly full context both on the page and in the cultural moment, in addition to probably needing to ask questions of the author.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgp7nXdkLU

[mikewarot]

So, if I had a corpus of all the literature from 1800-1850 digitized, the context would be sufficiently different as to be a new language?

It seems to me that the happy accident of doing this research at the start of getting all human knowledge digitized is part of the unreasonable effectiveness of this overall technique.

Had it happened in 200 years, it might not have worked, right?

[adrianN]

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.