My voice-to-speech app unsubtly points out when my accent in German becomes too obvious by transcribing my attempts to speak the language in the Cyrillic alphabet.
6 responses to “When Apps Give Hints”
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Wasserkocher? Вася Коза это круто.
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I’m also still somewhat nasal from my recent cold, and I prefer to blame this debacle on that. 😂😂😂
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“Вася Коха”
I decided that sounded like a name and so I decided to write a quick biography… and things got out of hand….
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Dude. You just invented this whole thing? It’s kind of eerily plausible, like one of those biographies of obscure yet fascinating authors that Clive James lists in his genius book about important European authors of the 20th century. It’s 104°F here today, so I’ll never remember the title of the book, but I’m sure people know what I mean.
My Вася Коха has come to life. 🤣🤣🤣 This was all worth it.
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“You just invented this whole thing?”
More or less, I was partly inspired by a recent tweet about the typical biography of a 19th century author, roughly “penniless, he spent the season in Marienbad, then sold a poem for five pounds, with the proceeds he bought a villa on the Amalfi coast where he died of syphillis three years later”
Vasya is a dimunitive of Vasyl so… a man. I’d already decided the author had to be a Ukrainian who wrote in German… Austro-Hungary, find a Ukrainian city that was part of A-H…. then it kind of wrote itself.
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It’s hilarious because it sounds so plausible. If I heard about Vasyl at an academic conference, I would have believed in him.
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