Episode 45 - Questions from my Aunt (Language and Translation) from The Two Vague Podcast

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Episode 45 - Questions from my Aunt (Language and Translation)

44 minutes Posted May 9, 2022 at 5:29 am.

Many hellos to / from Norah, and Ben’s “hot take” on media reviewers today

How are gender non-specific concepts being handled in gendered languages?

What happens in the brain when a child learns 2 languages simultaneously?

When does it become more difficult to learn new languages?

Ben has no book bag, Norah isn’t feeling well … both in German!

When translating a book, who is best suited to “accurately” translate it?

Global awareness, translations, time, and changing customs

The word translation, and the different meanings in different cultures

The work of linguists: haves, has, peruse, Peru, and Peru

A discussion about how translation will work in the metaverse

The open AI artist DALL-E 2 is currently showing racial and gender biased output

The Twitter bot Tay and how she became EVIL!

Thinking about computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and morphology

Norah tell a linguist joke, and we say goodbye

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This week Dr. Tahnee is back to discuss the word translation, but first we call up Aunt Norah! She has 3 questions that are perfect for our guest’s chosen profession / field of expertise. Discussion topics include: gender pronouns, learning languages, discriminatory tendencies in AI, and linguist centric humor

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