[ixtli]

I wish more people had casual exposure to professional translators. Its a deeply important, vanishingly small segment of the human population and has been this way for at least many thousands of years. Also, it will continue to be!

[madaxe_again]

I’ve a friend who does simultaneous interpretation at the UN and she’s just… good god, how do you even do that. Oh, and she does it in six languages.

And here I am, brain the size of a galaxy, and I fumble my way through every language I speak other than English.

Serious respect for the linguists.

[projektfu]

I guess I should have figured Marvin would be here on HN, feeling sorry for himself.

[sandblast]

> brain the size of a galaxy

Wow, aren't you humble.

[AnimalMuppet]

It's a quote from Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.