[amunozo]

This has been said for ages and, as a person in a very multilingual environment, I still cannot see it happening, no matter how good the translations are. I may be wrong, but talking through translation earbuds seems dystopic and uncomfortable.

[yulker]

there's also no substitute for the reduced inferential distance when two people speak the same language. the literal meaning of words encodes just a subset of the communication

[Thraway198]

but for people in unilingual environments, this tech seems like a miracle

[amunozo]

It is definitely something miraculous, but still not the real thing.