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At a foreign investors' conference there last month, a senior government figure, Peter Ziga, addressed a roomful of bewildered foreign executives in Slovak, without translation.
ECONOMIST: Central and eastern Europe
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For many centuries, even millennia, the world got by without translation: the people of different nations simply learned enough of the next door language to communicate adequately.
ECONOMIST: Shape-shifting
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Without accurate, real-time translation, the Internet will fall short of its potential to be the first universal communications medium.
ECONOMIST: Can machines talk? From next month they will