re: #262 Snarknado!

When it’s a machine translation of a western European (Indo-European) language, it’s getting almost competent, but Hebrew and English are more different, and translation is (at least) an order of magnitude harder. “It’s not how beautifully the bear dances, but that it dances at all.”

I blame Chomsky. Seriously. Leonard Bloomfield died in 1948, and linguistics coasted for a decade, but then Noam the Gnome came along with his “All the languages are the same underneath” and “People with giant brains like mine find learning all those words too boring” and “How language works can be determined by analyzing English ever more and more closely”. Destroyed the field.