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Discussion on: How would you create a translator app?

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Priyansh Jain

Reminds me of my high school coding days.
I had my go with it, and they had recently taught us about prefix and postfix notations.
So we have the Hindi language, that has a general composure in a sentence as Subject-Object-Verb (main(I) khel(games) khelta hun(play)), and English has Subject-Verb-Object ( I play games). So I just used the verb here as an operator, and the subject and object as operand.
Therefore, Hindi will be like ab+ and English will be like a+b. I just applied the prefix to postfix algorithm and vice versa to translate. My translator would successfully translate simple sentences that use few words!
Great times those.

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ItsASine (Kayla)

I'm trying to go from Subject Verb Object to Object Verb Subject, so hopefully I'll have as much fun to consider as you had :)