I was on Minds.com recently and I came across this blog. While there's not much I can add to this, but in the book that I'm currently working on, the characters use an in ear translator when encountering species on other worlds.
Whether Sci-fi or real, this type of technology is awesome.
However, if it's anything like google translate, you may end up with a
few snickers from your non-English speaking companion (or visa versa).
Someone actually makes her videos based on these translation flubs:
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Perhaps we shouldn't drop our second language electives just yet.
