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To: Prodigal Son
there will be more people learning language?

Certainly. Those that love language for the sake of language will have more time and resources to study what they love. Even after language translation is perfect, I still want to be able to sing my french drinking songs in my imperfect french.

I may be expert at knowledge base systems, unix system admin, and moving processes from paper to virtual, but I don't love and study that as I do food. I've read Larousse's Gastronomique from cover to cover, in the hardbound version, with notes on the side. Food is my calling, and I can only study deeply food with access to internet sites on chemistry, polymer production, psychology of smell, and so many other sources of information.

The available information doesn't make it easier, but harder. Should I use aluminum for filo pastry flower dessert forms? Does that affect intake of aluminum that may relate to Alheimers? What stainless steel can I use to make the forms? I'm not a metalurgist, so I google for hobbiest metal supply online and find out what is cost effective. I also learn about stirling engines, if that catches my interest.

/john

21 posted on 01/21/2004 4:41:10 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (I'm just a cook. And a unix sys-admin. Call for my contract rate.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Certainly.

Most people do not learn language from the love of doing so but from necessity. There will be no great impetus for augmented humans to do this when they already have a device inside their heads that can translate any language on Earth precisely and instantaneously.

22 posted on 01/21/2004 4:44:16 PM PST by Prodigal Son
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