Susan Zhang(@suchenzang):in the (human-observable) limit, these language models will all be speaking chinglish: - most highly-educated digital workers speak english or chinese - peak token efficiency <> expressiveness - compact translations of those four-word chinese idioms (成语) or continued language compaction with gen-z slang and beyond - common grammatical structure amplified between the two languages when expressing concepts in corporate environments (this++ if/when there's also overlap with hindi) or maybe more simply: we're purely in a digital data numbers game (against a perfect ai translation amplifier) from here on out

2026.05.13 00:31

in the (human-observable) limit, these language models will all be speaking chinglish: - most highly-educated digital workers speak english or chinese - peak token efficiency <> expressiveness - compact translations of those four-word chinese idioms (成语) or continued language compaction with gen-z slang and beyond - common grammatical structure amplified between the two languages when expressing concepts in corporate environments (this++ if/when there's also overlap with hindi) or maybe more simply: we're purely in a digital data numbers game (against a perfect ai translation amplifier) from here on out

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