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   Angelos

   January 10, 2005

   Fascinating read, especially for someone in the translation business. I will read it more closely this evening, but it seems to cover technology more than business.
   The problem is two-fold:
   1) Machine Translation is a joke, and always will be. I am no Luddite, and appreciate the value of many translation tools, but computers can’t write, computers can’t understand nuance, etc. When computers have true sci-fi type AI, I still don’t believe they will be able to translate with anything other than comical results.
   Here is a sentence from a post yesterday:
   Followuip on the death of Zeyad’s cousin: The first soldier tried got off the most serious charge in part because the defense said there was no proof the victim was dead. That sounded downright fishy. Now here’s a story that says in the trial of a second U.S. GI defendant, there is a move to exhume the body, though that hasn’t been done yet.
   Here is Google’s translation (it doesn’t know what to do with the typo):
   Followuip en la muerte del primo de Zeyad: El primer soldado intent

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