Current Events > $10 million, or the ability to be fluent in all languages known to man.

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With the ability you will be able to fully speak,read, and write all languages known to man.
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Money. Ill just hire a translator when I need one if ever.
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The ability, how is this even a question lol. Thats thousands of languages, some of which are on the verge of death and very poorly documented

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Does this include stuff like programming languages?

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Money. Enough people speak English that I'm good just sticking to them. I don't care about being cultured >_>. I'm more of a small picture guy in my personal life.

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I could easily make more than 10 million with the ability.

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Does this include stuff like programming languages?

Those arent languages, so id presume not

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That's a tough choice for me. But, I'd have to take the money.

Why the fuck would I want that many languages, I barely even speak. I don't remember what my voice sounds like. Help. I just tried talking but no sound is coming out, I have forgotten how to talk.

Help me.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I could easily make more than 10 million with the ability.

What would step 1 be?

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

What would step 1 be?

Decipher Linear A.

There is no step 2 that's worth $10 million all on its own.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Decipher Linear A.

There is no step 2 that's worth $10 million all on its own.

I was assuming tc meant extant languages. But if were including extinct and hypothetical ones yeah that just makes the ability even more OP

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

What would step 1 be?

Step 1 would be Google makes him obsolete.
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Being fluent in all languages is by far the better option.

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RebelElite791 posted...

I was assuming tc meant extant languages. But if were including extinct and hypothetical ones yeah that just makes the ability even more OP

Well I don't think hypothetical ones should count. Linear A is definitely a "language known to man" however.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Decipher Linear A.

There is no step 2 that's worth $10 million all on its own.

I meant your personal step 1. I had no expectation for your answer. I was genuinely curious if you had a step 1 thought out. I dunno anyone who has used knowing a bunch of languages to get 10 million dollars. But I also haven't looked.

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ECOMI posted...

Step 1 would be Google makes him obsolete.

Oh SMAL. Are you capable of making a single post that isnt absolute brainworms

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

I meant your personal step 1. I had no expectation for your answer. I was genuinely curious if you had a step 1 thought out. I dunno anyone who has used knowing a bunch of languages to get 10 million dollars. But I also haven't looked.

Nobody on Earth speaks thousands of languages fluently, so....

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There's no way that wouldn't leave you a neurotic mess
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RebelElite791 posted...

Those arent languages, so id presume not

A priori constructed languages absolutely are languages, I don't know why you would assume that only natural languages would count in this scenario.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I meant your personal step 1. I had no expectation for your answer. I was genuinely curious if you had a step 1 thought out. I dunno anyone who has used knowing a bunch of languages to get 10 million dollars. But I also haven't looked.

Nobody knows "all languages known to man" however. You could speak 200 languages and still not come close to "all languages known to man"

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Tenlaar posted...

A priori constructed languages absolutely are languages, I don't know why you would assume that only natural languages would count in this scenario.

Programming languages are absolutely not languages, and are only called such because its a useful term to describe what they do in programming. This is only something laymen who know nothing about linguistics ever think

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RebelElite791 posted...

Programming languages are absolutely not languages, and are only called such because its a useful term to describe what they do in programming. This is only something laymen who know nothing about linguistics ever think

Constructed languages are languages no matter how many times you say "nuh uh."

Tenlaar posted...

Constructed languages are languages no matter how many times you say "nuh uh."

A programming language is not a conlang. And even the most elaborate conlangs are not real languages.

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You could make a lot more than 10 million translating obscure stuff.

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I feel like you guys aren't as confident you could get 10 million dollars with this ability as you let on >_>. It's an awesome thing to know, but a lot of people are like me and not cultured and don't care to be. I feel like you'd have to really put your mind to it. Just knowing the ability is gonna be such a very small part of getting to 10 million.

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nah programming languages technically aren't languages.

you can't form a complete thought or sentence in a programming language without using an existing language

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Most programmers myself included absolutely do not consider programming languages as part of any linguistic discipline. That's a tremendous reach and it's very disingenuous for me to say something like "I speak 8 languages" if 7 of them are for coding.

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Can I have 9 million and just learn 10% of known languages, thanks

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Money. I only want to be adept in 3 or so languages and I can learn/maintain them myself. I would do absolutely nothing with the other hundreds.

I guess I could be a super translator but I'd still have plenty of competition for most languages. Like another poster said I'm not thinking it'd be super easy to make millions off of this ability.

LightHawKnight posted...

You could make a lot more than 10 million translating obscure stuff.

That's the best answer so far. But I'd still want to see how that turns out.

Someone paid 700k fpr an NFT, so I think it's in the realm of possibility you can find rich people who really wants this. Waaay better use of money

You're also a nobody who has to gain the popularity to get these people's attention.

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I'd go with the money but this 8s honestly one of the most difficult scenarios I've seen so far.
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CoolMaskGuy posted...

Money. I only want to be adept in 3 or so languages and I can learn/maintain them myself. I would do absolutely nothing with the other hundreds.

I guess I could be a super translator but I'd still have plenty of competition for most languages.

You vastly overestimate the competition for most languages. Of the ~7000 languages, you arent going to have competition in the vast majority of them

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Money.

I would care about languages if I were younger.
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RebelElite791 posted...

Those arent languages, so id presume not

What are they?

In that case I take the 10 mil. I dont have the will power to save a ton of languages. And outside of that I only want the use value.

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RebelElite791 posted...

You vastly overestimate the competition for most languages. Of the ~7000 languages, you arent going to have competition in the vast majority of them

But are people going to want to pay a lot for translations of stuff in obscure languages? I don't think the professors etc who work in that field make a whole lot of money. It seems like more of a passion thing.

I mean nobody is going to pay you millions for a translation of anything in any language unless you find a treasure map written in ancient runes that only you understand.

This is a cool ability if you love knowledge but doesn't seem like a huge moneymaker to me. I'd rather be set or mostly set for life with that 10 million.

Translation is also hard work and unless this ability lets you wave your hand over text to convert it into x language instantly you're looking at having a decently hard job.

thronedfire2 posted...

nah programming languages technically aren't languages.

you can't form a complete thought or sentence in a programming language without using an existing language

That just means that it's a priori, not that it's not a language.

Tenlaar posted...

That just means that it's a priori, not that it's not a language.

Have you taken a single linguistics class in your life? Honest question.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Most programmers myself included absolutely do not consider programming languages as part of any linguistic discipline. That's a tremendous reach and it's very disingenuous for me to say something like "I speak 8 languages" if 7 of them are for coding.

Of course you wouldn't say that, but there's nothing wrong with saying you know eight languages and seven of them are programming languages. If speaking it was a requirement to be a language then ASL wouldn't be a language.

thronedfire2 posted...

nah programming languages technically aren't languages.

you can't form a complete thought or sentence in a programming language without using an existing language

Makes sense I guess

But I think a computer using GOFAI wouldnt "know" the foundational language here


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CoolMaskGuy posted...

But are people going to want to pay a lot for translations of stuff in obscure languages? I don't think the professors etc who work in that field make a whole lot of money. It seems like more of a passion thing.

I mean nobody is going to pay you millions for a translation of anything in any language unless you find a treasure map written in ancient runes that only you understand.

I guarantee you millions have been spent trying and failing to decipher Linear A.

And IRL isn't a pirate movie. If you find a long lost treasure map then someone else already found the treasure by accident a hundred years ago without the map.

The historical implications are where the value is. There's a great deal of knowledge locked behind languages that no one can read. Stuff like poetry and boring political stuff.

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Tenlaar posted...

Of course you wouldn't say that, but there's nothing wrong with saying you know eight languages and seven of them are programming languages. If speaking it was a requirement to be a language then ASL wouldn't be a language.

There's everything wrong because they aren't languages.

Nobody said verbal speaking was a requirement, but communication is, and ASL absolutely has its own linguistics and is a language in every way.

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The languages is very useful and probably multiple times worth the money

But 10 mil can literally change my life and I'm not greedy

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I mean if math and programming languages count then it changes it up but I wasn't really including those mentally.

Tenlaar posted...

Of course you wouldn't say that, but there's nothing wrong with saying you know eight languages and seven of them are programming languages. If speaking it was a requirement to be a language then ASL wouldn't be a language.

You can achieve literacy ASL, Braille, Morse, etc even if you cannot physically speak them. Same thing goes for conventional languages understood by mute people. There's no conversation to be had with programming languages. They are more like mathematics than language.

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If some guy told me he knew eight languages and it actually meant English plus seven programming languages I'd count that as bullshitting me, lol.

CoolMaskGuy posted...

If some guy told me he spoke eight languages and it actually meant English plus seven programming languages I'd count that as bullshitting me, lol.

Because it would be 100% bullshit.

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Still though, if language is a consequences of thoughts, and cognition has its own basic grammar and semantics...

English is no longer a language because it's based on some other communication schema?

This is just sophistry lol, ignore

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ECOMI posted...

Step 1 would be Google makes him obsolete.

Google Translate is awful in any practical regard

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