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Correction: Greek and Aramaic

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"I also unironically think this is the psychological drive of the western anime appreciation phenomenon."

"Put another way: for everyone to understand, it must be intelligible to the dumbest person in the room"

Or just put it in an anime. I swear, put it in an anime and everyone will work at warp speed, with preternatural haste, to understand what was said.

Sophism? *Deceit*? Nah, siree, we are translating that waifus or that shonen hero's moonspeak in order to delve the depths of her or his psychology *right now*! And the only losers in that interaction are localizers.

The fourth global language has got to be anime.

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