I went with "networking with like-minded people" but another thing I really enjoy about AZB is getting the perspectives of pro pool fans all over the world. Of course, there's no shortage of American pool enthusiasts on AZB and they are great, but it's the others that really give us a greater sense of worldwide pool. Spartan and others give us a really good sense of how Asians view the world of pro pool. For a sense of what's going on in European pro pool, we've got great posters like Poolmanis, Skogstokig, Marek and others.
AZB just wouldn't be the same without the many internationals who post here.
This prompts me to imagine/suggest that there be a clickable "Google Translate" option engineered somewhere on the AZB Home page, or at least for this Main Forum. An option with a Drop-Down listing of all the languages into which this forum can be translated.
Internet translations as recent as 10 years ago were often way off-the-mark but they are increasingly becoming quite dead-on fluent -- accurate enough for any native speakers/readers, because of the Google AI's 1,000x more radically enhanced ability to learn grammar, syntax, idiomatic speech, etc. from published fiction, scientific & medical papers, and worldwide newspapers, magazines and videos which -- by the
millions -- flood the planet's internet
every day . . . . Hell, I predict that a time will come when Earth's AIs will readily communicate with other sentient planets' AI's throughout the known Universe via supra-luminal, quantum entanglement sender/receiver transmitters.
In short, for now, with a well-engineered translation option, think of how enriching for our sport and forums if search engines reaching all our worldwide countries convey the fact that AZB can be read by anyone in their native language.
Arnaldo ~ Aiming for either a Nobel World Peace Prize or a free Expresso-decaf coupon good at the nearest Fourbucks coffee shop.
