Machine Translations
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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