Indeed. Specifically, writing in 1969, he posited that one of the uses of the voice-translation system would be for people to read in the title of a book into an English-to-Japanese translator, record the translation, then play the translation back into a Japanese-to-English translator, with hilarious effect. Eg "The Great Gatsby" comes out "The Latticework Gun Stinging Insect" et cetera.
(This was all a minor throwaway mainly intended to illustrate the pointlessness of the protagonist's life before he gets sucked into the main plot.)
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Date: 2007-12-19 03:58 pm (UTC)(This was all a minor throwaway mainly intended to illustrate the pointlessness of the protagonist's life before he gets sucked into the main plot.)