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                        Aistrigh an leabhar aghaidh seo
                                        
When I post here, a link is added to both LinkedIn [1] and Facebook [2]. I do
this both to get my post out there, and to have a place where people can
comment. What I did not expect was to have Facebook translate automatically.

My friend Bob [3] remarked on Facebook, “Laughing that FB auto translated
that.” When I asked what “that” was, my friend Amanda replied “on the
contrary my brother.” [4] And I don't know how I feel about that. I
specifically choose that title, but Facebook goes and translates it. I wasn't
expecting that. And it's not like people are incapable of highlighting the
phrase and doing an Internet search on it.

Am I complaining about crutches [5] again? Is this pandering to “stupid
Americans?” Are my posts translated to English if they're aren't? No, I'm
seeing posts in non-English with an option to have Facebook translate it. It
might be the “smartphone” Facebook application does this automatically. I
don't know, I don't have the Facebook application on my phone to check.

I wonder that Facebook will do to the title of this post?

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/
[2] https://www.facebook.com/
[3] http://www.robertanstett.com/
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2019/12/21/translate-this.jpg
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/11/03.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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