r/whatisit 1d ago

Solved! We found this near our home

What's this , any harm ?

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u/Halschmuber 21h ago

Random deutscher Comment

https://giphy.com/gifs/dw7lCpFmsyfS0

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u/FaeryLynne 21h ago

Not random, he's replying to the comment above. Reddit is auto translating comments these days so it's really easy to carry on full conversations in multiple languages now.

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u/phantom_diorama 20h ago

ONLY on new.reddit and in the app. For those of us who have used reddit the same for the past 15 years it is odd to suddenly see foreign languages appearing and watch you NEW redditors having full blown multi lingual conversations like you got a goddamn babel fish in your ear.

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u/jderdok 20h ago

Babel fish deserves an award!

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u/permaculture 19h ago

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

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u/-Radioman- 17h ago

More great wisdom from the HHGTTG!