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(Unverified)May 21st 2009 4:13AM

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I'm more likely to speak with people who I have a common language with.
And if I HAVE to mail some alien language person (maybe if I plan a trip to Russia ?) I will write in English, admitting that everyone speaks English.
So this feature doesn't seem very useful.

But if we look forward in the future, a "universal translator" isn't such a bad idea, if we suppose:
- there is no predominant/almost-universal language as English is today
- OR the quality of the bot-translation improves a lot.
- OR *people have the right to communicate in their own language*

Some precision: I speak 3 wide-spread languages, and English is not my first one, so I understand translation is important

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