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		inglor_cz 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing politic... The British NHS now provides translators for about 200 languages for their patients. How many would they need in 1950? Twenty at most, even fewer outside London.

Dylan16807 3 months ago [–]

If we use the 1950 standard of need, then they don't need anywhere near 200 today either.

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