a kid walks up to a bunch of other kids playing sports and speaking a non-english language.
he says “can i play?” they look at him funny.
he puts “can i play?” into his phone’s AI assistant and it translates it, and the other kids gladly let him play.
like… you could do that twenty years ago? babelfish was not perfect but it was always good enough to translate simple 3-word phrases into something more or less understandable?