If global large-scale human communication continues to be concentrated within large social media platforms and content providers like YouTube, human languages may become sort of irrelevant in that space. Sometimes I Google for something and see a Reddit result in Finnish. I live in Finland, so it makes sense when the search engine prioritizes such results, but most of the time the actual Reddit thread is not in Finnish at all. Reddit can translate any thread with a simple URL param e.g. ?tl=...
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