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Hans Eberstark is a great Austrian linguist, translator, and mental calculator. There was an Atlantic Monthly profile on him around 1994.

Eberstark would often lecturing on language and translation in Europe, and was famous for asking someone whose first language was a small local dialect of German (particularly Swiss-German, of which there are countless dialects) to speak with him (during the lecture), after a couple minutes of which Eberstark would suddenly start speaking fluently in that dialect.



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