They look super fiddly but also amazing in the finished blanket. Overly complicated craft projects for the win :D

That's so cool. I love the colours (and respect the persistence!).

Southern England, English. "Miaow." But local vocal tortie is also very fond of "brrrrup" (absolute minimum of four Rs necessary).

What's surprised me is that it's actually getting *harder* to do this as I get older - I thought it would be the opposite. (No idea how representative this is - I've heard it from other autistic people too but it might be a minority.) Means getting and keeping a job only gets more difficult.

And as a bonus, you get to expand your horizons and view of the world, and communicate with a lot of people you'd otherwise just have to blink sheepishly at and hope for the best.

but even if Google Translate was always right (not something that's possible), it's hard to think of a better all-round humanities subject that covers a lot of ground and a lot of different skills than a language. This is true at every level, but only becomes more so the further you go with it.

The idea that Google Translate makes studying languages unnecessary (in comments, not the quoted post) is very silly (the fact that the errors are less visible to someone who doesn't speak the source language doesn't mean they're not there - they very much are),

Some errors will be pretty visible, obviously, but not all, and not in all contexts. If you're relying on AI-"assisted" translation for anything important you're rolling the dice.

If you're wondering how wrong it could realistically be, in the past couple of years, Google Translate has rendered the Greek word for 'femicide' with 'gynaecology', and the words for 'oat milk' with 'stench drink', just in my very limited use of it.