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Learning a second language is a fantastic way to feel many aspects of being a child again. Having to deal with frustration. Understanding a situation but not be able to fully take part. Being able to communicate but only with the blunt instrument of the words you know.

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That's how I feel right now talking in my only language of English.

Yep. So many people have been drifting away into some kind of parallel reality where language is seemingly the same, yet transmits no meaning between our diverging realities.

Language that looks superficially normal but transmits no meaning is called "generative AI output"

That too, but I originally meant literal human output, as in loss of ability to convey meaning with words in communication between people, no AI involved.

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