🔴 🇯🇵 The transformative power of translation

“…In both 1870 and 1910 most of the technical knowledge of the world is in French, English, Italian and German but look at what happens in Japan–basically no technical books in 1870 to on par with English in 1910. Moreover, no other country did this.”

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65111

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