(…) Some people think that the translating profession’s days are numbered as well. I hear it all the time from non-translators. “Is there even a need for translators when machine translation is easily available?” people sometime ask me when they find out what it is that I do for a living.

Most people have already discovered that machine translation often makes no sense, but they still don’t understand that it will never really make sense because the reason why machine translation often makes no sense is that it is not translation. It is basically just a bunch of words generated by a machine based on an algorithm and it is up to the reader to make sense of these words. More.

See: Patenttranslator’s Blog

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