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2025-07-19 00:14 UTC
@altruios@mastodon.social @thelovebing@mastodon.nu @jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social Which has, as it should, a "limitations" section at the end... which only briefly covers the many limitations of such things.
"Context" is a massive one which changes from person to person, use to use let alone from culture to culture and then from language to language (while translation apps do a reasonable job, especially at the basics, they'll always fall down with e.g. more complex prose where the translation becomes opinion).
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@thelovebing@mastodon.nu 2025-07-19 07:02
@jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @altruios@mastodon.social @level98@mastodon.social @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social Precisely. ”Queen”, for example, is a word that has (had) many meanings. ”Queen Kristina” of Sweden –again, an example– wasn’t a queen. She never married, and the word used to signify the spouse of a king. She was crowned a king, though. Which of course changed the meaning of those words, at least in Sweden, but not the same way then as it later did.