Agreed. Humans are insanely good at figuring out intent and context, and running stuff through an LLM breaks that.

The times I've had to communicate IRL in a language I don't speak well, I do my best to speak slowly and enunciate and trust they'll try their best to figure it out. It's usually pretty obvious what you're asking lol. (Also a lot of people just reply with "Can I help you?" in English lol)

I've occasionally had to email sites in languages I don't speak (to tell them about malware or whatever) and I write up a message in the simplest, most basic English I can. I run that through machine translation that starts out with "This was generated by Google Translate" and include both in the email.

Just do your best to communicate intent and meaning, and don't worry about sounding like an idiot.

> Humans are insanely good at figuring out intent and context

I wish that was true.