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The issue is that the language is not accurately represented – imagine in English instead of the Latin letter "a" you see the Greek letter "α". It's still legib
by vore 3y ago
The issue is that the language is not accurately represented – imagine in English instead of the Latin letter "a" you see the Greek letter "α". It's still legible but it's not unreasonable to ask for an accurate depiction of a language.
- hp6 3y agoThe letter “a” has a frequency of ~8%, and it would indead be anoying, but lets say the letter “q” is rendered incorrectly which has a frequency of ~0.1% then thats just some minor issue.
- Lvl999Noob 3y agoWhile in a practical sense your argument might hold water (which I doubt, to be honest), this is not just a practical matter. This is also a matter of respect. If you think that mis-representing q is not a problem because it appears so less, then do you also think that disregarding the religious tenets of minorities is fine since they make up such a small part of the population?
- vore 3y agoI don't know why we shouldn't strive to have computers to reproduce language precisely, since computers are how we communicate most of the time and how the majority of content ends up being preserved. After all, maybe we shouldn't bother with spelling in English either, since everyone can safely approximate the meaning anyway!