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Although computers and machines have made great strides in this Internet age, there is still no substitute for a human translation. Fool hearted is the individual or business that will leave the translation of their document or web site to a machine- most likely the result will make little sense to anyone - not even the very computer. Although a machine translation service can be helpful as a word dictionary, translating anything more than a few words will result in great problems. As an example- at one famous machine translation site, Babel Fish, the following phrase was entered in to be translated from English to Portuguese:

If you would like to sell your products to a worldwide audience or have your document translations accepted by government agencies then I would highly suggest never using a machine translation. Machines are notoriously stupid.

This was the result:

Which, unless you know Portuguese, might look just fine. However, to show how inadequate this translation actually is- place this translation back into the BabelFish to be translated from Portuguese to English, making a complete circle- which, if it was a good translation, we would expect to see the English that we had originally started off with. Instead, this was the result:

If you he liked to sell to its products to a hearing worldwide or to have its translations of the original accepted by government agencies then I would suggest never using a translation of machine highly. The machines are notoriously stupid.

About the only part of the translation the machine got right was the ending sentence "The machines are notoriously stupid. "! Just as this makes no sense in English, neither does it in Portuguese. Hopefully this little exercise has shown why you would never want to trust a machine to translate the product you sell or offer on the Web, and why government agencies would never accept such a translation either.

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