I think the point isn't that you wouldn't be connected to the internet, rather that the translator itself isn't yet another thing that will phone home with all of your data
Still ‘had to.’ It’s pretty disgusting to sit in a poorly ventilated classroom with 10 people coughing their lungs out and wiping their snot on the chairs. University by the way.
There are still few very niche/local communities here that I have seen, at least active ones. But that's only because of the much smaller user base