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  • Oct 7, 2026, 1:52 PM

    Any text platform should have some way to add context tags and tooltips to words and phrases. I would love to put a subtle dotted underline on a word to establish which of the 13 meanings and 45 different interpretations of it I actually refer to without having to write a whole essay about it in parentheses that's so long that by the time you finish reading it you already forgot how the sentence even started.

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  • Oct 7, 2026, 1:57 PM

    this, by the way, is a hard requirement for any sort of machine translation.

    Without a mechanism to provide additional context it is fundamentally impossible to create a reliably accurately translation because just a text by itself does not contain the author's intent.

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  • Oct 7, 2026, 2:13 PM

    Mind that human translation has the exact same shortcoming. If you make a game and give the translator only a list of all the words and sentences in the game without ever showing them the actual game contents the translation will be awful.

    It's like trying to get a calculator to come up with the correct result with half of the values being ambiguous or unknown.

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