Written communication started with signs and symbols. It evolved into character-based alphabets representing the sounds of localized languages. Over time, people groups started to spread out and the languages collided. There had to be a way to communicate with each other. Translators and interpreters were the solution. In the early days of translation, a document needed to be translated by hand. The process typically involved a group of individuals who possessed bilingual abilities. They would spend months, even years, working word-for-word, phrase-by-phrase to bring documents to the world.
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