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by rcarmo·10y ago·view on hn ↗
It's not wet and squirmy like a babel fish, but I fear the consequences of it being able to fully translate product/sales-speak into engineer-speak and vice-versa.

Like Douglas Adams wrote:

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

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an ambivalent perspective from Vernor Vinge, aFUtD

"Ravna had a theory (not that widely accepted, actually) that where beings have a common fluency, little else matters."